“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...
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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…
Taking a Statin? Beware of These Dangerous Interactions With Other Heart Drugs
If you’re taking a statin drug to help reduce your risk for heart attack or stroke, you wouldn’t expect it to interact with another heart...
The Best Way to Reverse AFib (It’s Not Drugs or Surgery)
If you’re diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, commonly known as AFib—a chronic condition that creates abnormal heart rhythms, increasing the risk for stroke and heart failure—your...
Why You Don’t Need a Heart Scan or a Coronary Artery Calcium Score Test
Coronary artery disease has been called “the silent killer.” You even may have known someone who dropped dead out of the blue because of it....
Natural Treatments for Peripheral Artery Disease
These Natural Therapies Can Boost Your Treatment Results You are walking or climbing up a set of stairs, and suddenly you notice a dull, cramping...
Dangerous Infections That Happen Weeks After Heart Surgery
We all know that heart surgery is a serious procedure, and that just like any other surgery, there is always a risk for major infection....
