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Did You Take Zantac? What You Need to Know
You’ve probably seen advertisements for lawsuits regarding cancers associated with the heartburn medication Zantac. If you took Zantac before it was pulled from shelves in...
Should You Treat High Triglycerides?
Cholesterol numbers and their significance often take center stage in discussions about cardiovascular health. However, there’s another number that tends to fly under the radar...
When You Should – and Shouldn’t – Do CPR
CPR does save lives—but not as many as you might think. Outside the hospital, the survival rate for people receiving CPR is between 7% and...
Heart Health = Brain Health
To keep your brain healthy as you get older, focus on your heart health now. That is the conclusion of a recent study by scientists...
Keep Your Blood Pressure Under Control
High blood pressure—we hear about it every day. Most of us know someone who has high blood pressure, or perhaps you have it yourself. That’s...
When Your Heart Skips a Beat
“My heart just skipped a beat.” You have probably heard it or said it. It’s called a premature ventricular contraction (PVC) or heart palpitation. According...
Eat Your Way to Heart Health
Your heart pumps blood throughout your body. The arteries and veins through which blood flows to all of your organs, including the brain, can be...
Shingles and Your Heart
Shingles causes excruciating, disabling, burning pain that may last for weeks, months, or years. A new study from Harvard researchers shows that it also increases...
You Can Save a Life
When 25-year-old Buffalo Bills football player Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest after a play on the field, his life was saved by the quick...
Beyond Pacemakers
The concept of a pacemaker began 200 years ago when Luigi Galvani, the Italian physician and biologist, used an electrical current to make a frog’s...
Why Do I Need to Wear a Heart Monitor for So Long?
If you’re having palpitations or other unexplained heart symptoms, wearing a Holter monitor can help detect the cause. Here, details on the process…
