Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology, Heart Disease
What stresses you out? Looming deadlines? Juggling family members’ schedules? Relationships?
While stress can actually be helpful sometimes, motivating you to finish projects and prioritize your life, it can also be harmful. It can affect you emotionally, behaviorally, cognitively and physically, manifesting in an array of symptoms that you may not even recognize as stress-related. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Surgery
The FREEDOM clinical trial, a study of 1,900 diabetic patients, just reported in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine that diabetics with multi-vessel coronary disease who were treated with coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) fared much better than those treated with angioplasty with drug-eluting stents (percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI.) (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology, Inside, Your Health
When Daquain Jenkins, 29, left The Mount Sinai Hospital last year, he became the first patient in the New York metropolitan area to return home to await a heart transplant with the assistance of a portable artificial heart.
The milestone was remarkable in a number of ways. First, the Total Artificial Heart, manufactured by SynCardia Systems, Inc., in Tucson, Arizona, replaces both failing heart ventricles and four heart valves, eliminating end-stage biventricular failure. It is immediately available to patients, and serves as a bridge while they await a suitable heart donor. In addition, it allows patients to move freely and manage everyday chores while wearing a backpack that stores the 13.5-pound battery-driven device.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology, Diabetes, Diet and Nutrition, News, Popular
Guest post by Simone Walters, MS, RD
Whether in the form of a hot beverage to keep the winter chill at bay or as delicious candies received as gifts for Valentine’s Day, it would seem that chocolate holds a special place in everyone’s heart this time of year—perhaps year-round if you fashion yourself a chocoholic! There have also been several reports in recent years regarding the health benefits of chocolate, music to the ears of chocolate lovers everywhere. In spite of these health benefits, it is still quite a stretch to say that chocolate is good for you. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology, LGBT Health, Sexual Health
The development of anti-retroviral medication has changed the face of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). Now, people with HIV are living longer and healthier lives. However, research is now showing that those who are HIV positive may be at greater risk for cardiovascular disease, such as strokes, blockages in arteries bringing blood to the heart muscle and heart attacks. Cardiovascular disease is predicted to become one of the leading medical problems in patients with HIV. (more…)
Oct 30, 2012 | Cardiology, Diabetes, Diet and Nutrition, Heart Disease
All of us can think of a food and have flashbacks to our childhood. Foods that transport us back in time. For me, I remember the taste of Wonderbread, and the way the white fluffy slices would practically melt in my mouth. I also remember the day my mother banned the bread in favor of its counterpart, the dreaded whole wheat bread. These days, I’m grateful I made the transition early on, but why was it necessary? What’s so great about whole grains anyways? (more…)
What stresses you out? Looming deadlines? Juggling family members’ schedules? Relationships?
