AHA News: How Healthy Is Your Neighborhood? Where You Live Can Greatly Affect Heart, Brain Health
Latest Heart News THURSDAY, July 15, 2021 (American Heart Association News) Liz Harris won’t let anything stop her from walking. Three mornings a week, she descends three flights of stairs and heads to Anacostia Park. It’s a 10-minute walk just to get there. If none of her friends are available, she walks alone. […]
AHA News: How Technology Is Improving Health Information Access for the Deaf Community
Latest MedicineNet News MONDAY, July 12, 2021 (American Heart Association News) Early in Dr. Michael McKee’s career, one of his patients, who was deaf, died from a heart attack. It led him to study how to prevent it from happening to others. That tragic event might not have happened, he said, if there […]
AHA News: Born With a Severe Heart Defect, 9-Year-Old Boy Defies All Odds
Latest Heart News FRIDAY, July 9, 2021 (American Heart Association News) Twenty weeks into her pregnancy, Hannah Lewis eagerly went to a doctor’s visit expecting to learn the gender of her first child. Only 19, Lewis was excited and nervous about becoming a mother, and thrilled when she learned she was having a […]
AHA News: Fit and 41, She Thought Nothing of Her Family History – Until Her Heart Attack
Latest Heart News WEDNESDAY, July 7, 2021 (American Heart Association News) Nicole Lazowski was no stranger to hospitals. Her father battled heart disease for as long as she could remember. She was 7 when he had his first of five heart attacks. “I grew up in and out of hospitals, going there with […]
AHA News: Diagnosed With Preeclampsia Late in Pregnancy, She Had a Stroke 5 Days After Giving Birth
Latest Pregnancy News THURSDAY, July 1, 2021 (American Heart Association News) Always game for a new challenge, Andrea Engfer began running with a friend in her small town of Orting, Washington. She liked it so much, she signed up for a 5K. Then another – and so on. “I try to improve every […]
AHA News: Farming Takes Root in Seattle-Area Food Desert
Latest Nutrition, Food & Recipes News WEDNESDAY, June 30, 2021 (American Heart Association News) Nine thousand miles separate Veronica Karanja from her mother’s farm in Kenya and where she now farms in Kent, Washington. Karanja’s expertise – and her vegetables that are culturally significant in Kenya – are helping transform a food desert […]
Heart Failure From Breast Cancer Treatment
Latest Cancer News WEDNESDAY, June 30, 2021 (American Heart Association News) Women who develop heart failure following certain breast cancer treatments are generally healthier and have a better prognosis than those with heart failure from other causes, a new study finds. Two widely used treatments for breast cancer are known to harm the […]
AHA News: Embraceable, Healthy News: Hugging Is Back
Latest Mental Health News TUESDAY, June 29, 2021 (American Heart Association News) After a year of being COVID-cautious, Linda Matisoff counted the days until she could hug her 5-year-old granddaughter, Laila, again. In March, two weeks after getting her second dose of the vaccine, it was finally time. “We were coming down the […]
AHA News: As She Makes History, Dr. Rachel Levine Stays Focused on Healing
Latest Prevention & Wellness News FRIDAY, June 25, 2021 (American Heart Association News) Dr. Rachel Levine wanted to work in health because she wanted to help people. Along the way, she became an icon. Levine, the assistant secretary for health in the Department of Health and Human Services, made history in March when […]
Potato Chips, Fatty Lunches Raise Heart Risks – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Heart News By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, June 25, 2021 A steady lunch routine of cheeseburgers and fries may shorten your life, but loading your dinner plate with vegetables could do the opposite. Those are among the findings of a new study looking at the potential health effects of not only […]