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Heart Attack In Women I'd been walking around with burning in my chest for a few days, thinking I’d pulled a muscle, or somehow inflamed the breast bone. I went to the doctor who took an EKG, saying the heart was getting less oxygen, but nothing different from my past EKGs. I left the office thinking if it was the heart something bigger would have shown on the EKG. Once home, I decided to...
Cyd Charisse, the last great Hollywood dancer, died Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after suffering an apparent heart attack Monday.
What is it about a challenge that lures even the most sane of us to take on huge risks? Meet a woman who started swimming after her brother's sudden death at 34. Now 60, she just swam her way across the English Channel and into the record books.
Larry Roofner was a corporate executive, a mover and shaker and a big-time success. And it nearly killed him. He walked away from it all, and at 52, he reinvented himself.
Dr. John Hitt is president of one of the largest and most respected universities in America. Under Dr. Hitt's leadership, The University of Central Florida has totally transformed itself. At the same Dr. Hitt, totally transformed himself.
At 32, he was stunned to learn he needed heart bypass surgery. It launched him on a 30-year journey to wage a war on heart disease.
Dr Caldwell Esselstyn is an esteemed researcher who says heart disease is a food-borne illness, and you can not only prevent it but reverse it by eating a plant-based diet.
One of the world's most respected surgeons and researchers says he has irrefutable proof that a cure exist for heart disease, this nation's No. 1 killer. He explains how everyone can prevent it and even the most ill patients can reverse it.
(Readers' Note: This was written in the fall.) The stifling weather of Florida's summer has broken. The weather has become cool by our standards and the humidity has dropped off. Consequently, it was time again to resume my walks on the beach - and so I did today. I guess I need to explain what I mean when I say the beach, our beach. The beach actually spans to two cities - Ormond...
It wasn’t on the fire ground or an accident, or even on the dangerous interstate highway—there were no warning signs—just a physical that the fire station requires. The chief is always asking if everyone went for their physical; and the answer is normally, “yes” or “I have an appointment.” I was one of the lucky ones. I have been a volunteer firefighter for Greenfield Township...