Tom Parker was 32 when his heart suddenly stopped. At home in Washington, D.C., his wife quickly started CPR with guidance from a 911 dispatcher. An emergency medical technician arrived on the scene minutes later. Using a ...
Jan 12, 2018
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The health of people with diabetes, hypertension and obesity improved when they could get free fruits and vegetables with a prescription from their doctors and other health professionals.
Aug 30, 2023
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Blood pressure measurements taken in a medical office can vary widely between visits, new research finds, offering further support for guidelines that call for supplemental home monitoring.
Mar 8, 2023
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For decades, patients with atrial fibrillation with a moderate or severe risk for stroke were prescribed the anticoagulant warfarin. With the emergence of a safer, more effective class of oral anticoagulants, new Yale-led ...
Dec 10, 2021
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Divorced women suffer heart attacks at higher rates than women who are continuously married, a new study from Duke Medicine has found. A woman who has been through two or more divorces is nearly twice as likely to have a ...
Apr 14, 2015
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Back when Charlie Wilson was an avid runner, the only flutter he ever felt in his chest came from indigestion.
Sep 5, 2018
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Researchers from The University of Western Australia have found that the rate of heart attacks in Western Australians with diabetes has declined substantially during the past decade despite a rapid rise in the prevalence ...
Sep 9, 2014
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Patients with hypertension paired with a community health worker (CHW) through their primary care practice were more than three and a half times as likely to achieve blood pressure control within six months compared to patients ...
Feb 23, 2023
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Heart attacks are misdiagnosed more often in young women than in men, and one key way to change that, researchers say, is to think differently about how symptom can manifest.
Mar 9, 2020
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Higher spirituality among stroke survivors was strongly linked to better quality of life for them and their caregivers who may also feel depressed, according to new research published today in Circulation: Cardiovascular ...
May 26, 2020
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