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Lynchburg hospital will soon perform heart screenings on all newborns
Reporter/Lynchburg Bureau ChiefFrom the moment a new baby arrives, the worry begins for a mother. "You come home and you're just like 'okay, now it's my responsibility to take care of them. What do I do?'," said Amy Carr, a Lynchburg mother who just delivered her second child this...Tags: Birth Defects, Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia), Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Disease, Hospitals and Clinics
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Prescription for nutrition
Despite a growing consensus that cardiovascular disease is a "food-borne" illness, many physicians are ill-prepared to advise patients on what they should eat to best protect them from heart attack or stroke. One provocative new study found that a...
Tags: Culture, Health and Medical Professionals, Politics, High Cholesterol, Newspaper and Magazine
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Heart repair breakthroughs replace surgeon's knife
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Have a heart problem? If it's fixable, there's a good chance it can be done without surgery, using tiny tools and devices that are pushed through tubes into blood vessels. Heart care is in the midst of a transformation. Many...
Tags: Boston Scientific Corporation, Food and Drug Administration, Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, Heart Surgery, Stroke
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Officials delve into LaGrange County land deal
South Bend TribuneWOLCOTTVILLE -- Ruth and Alvin Lambright Jr. grew up together on the family "homeplace" in rural LaGrange County. Ruth and her younger brother, Alvin, ran the farm together for decades after their parents died and are described variously as "salt of...Tags: Religion and Belief, Services and Shopping, Accounting and Auditing, Real Estate Sellers, Laws
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Heart disease often missed in women
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, but many don't recognize the warning signs. They may ignore the symptoms or mistake them for more benign ailments. Dr. Shannon J. Winakur, medical director of the Women's Heart Center at Saint Agnes Hospital,...
Tags: Heart Failure, Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Medical Professionals, Stroke, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Scanning mummies for heart disease 'about as fun as it can get'
As medical director of the MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, preventive cardiologist Dr. Gregory Thomas counsels modern-day patients, urging them to eat right, exercise and quit smoking to keep their hearts healthy....
Tags: Arteriosclerotic Vascular Disease, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals, Indiana Jones (fictional character)
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Danville emergency crews prep doctors before patients get to hospital
WDBJ7 ReporterMonitoring a person's heartbeat and pulse has been a practice for more than one hundred years. Danville is taking the process and advancing it to the 21 century. Each of the city's fire engines now have its own portable electrocardiograms. The EKG...Tags: Mike Jefferson, Cardiac Catheterization, Fires, Heart Attack
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Area high schools offer free heart screenings
Christopher Storm was a seemingly healthy teenager, running both track and cross country for Waubonsie Valley High School. But doctors say a lurking heart condition could have cost him his life if it hadn't been detected during a heart screening offered...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Heart Problems, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Overdoing it on exercise
Most people who exercise find a way to work it into their lives. Robert Silvers of Marshfield, Mass., organizes his life around his exercise. When Silvers recently told his wife that, sorry, he didn't have time to help fix her computer, she reminded him...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Health and Medical Professionals, Mayo Clinic, Psychologists, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Heart disease a woman's disease too
Sarah Batts minded her diet. She exercised regularly. She made sure her waistline never exceeded 35 inches. She was, in her own estimation, a health nut, and she had reason to be. Both her father and an older sister, who at age 50 had stents placed in...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics, Diabetes, Breast Cancer
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The heart in pregnancy
Jamie Feld followed all the pre-pregnancy advice, had a checkup before conceiving and was told she was fit and healthy to carry her first baby. Throughout her pregnancy, the Northbrook resident kept up with all prenatal appointments, and all seemed well...
Tags: Fainting, Heart Failure, Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Medical Professionals, Symptoms
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5 Questions: Diet advice that goes against the grain
You've heard about the "Wheat Belly" diet, right? Well, technically, it doesn't exist. Dr. William Davis points out that the word "diet" does not appear on either the cover of his bestselling "Wheat Belly" book published in 2011 or on the follow-up,...
Tags: Weight Loss, Foods and Beverages, Soups, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Breads
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