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1. First ladies join The Heart Truth to raise women’s heart disease awareness The Heart Truth campaign to raise awareness about women’s heart disease takes the spotlight at The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, where The Heart Truth Founding Ambassador Laura Bush recently unveiled the latest installment of the First Ladies Red Dress Collection. The exhibit features red dresses and suits on loan from the presidential libraries […]...
2. Celebrate National Wear Red Day February 4th was National Wear Red Day.  Since 2002, the first Friday in February, Americans have worn red to show their support for women’s heart disease awareness.  The Heart Truth, a national awareness campaign introduced the symbol of the Red Dress as a reminder that women need to protect their heart health and takes steps […]...
3. MedicareCard, Newer Heart Surgery, Infants Offers First-Year Survival Benefit over Traditional Procedure Infants born with a severely underdeveloped heart who undergo a newer surgical procedure are more likely to survive their first year and not require a heart transplant than those who have a more traditional surgical procedure, according to a report by researchers supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), which is part […]...
4. MedicareCard.com – Adding Coronary Calcium Score to Traditional Risk Factors Improves Risk Assessment for Heart Disease Including a coronary artery calcium score in a risk assessment for future heart disease events, such as heart attacks, provides a better estimate in some populations than a standard coronar...
5. Exercise and Heart Health We all know that regular exercise is good for us, but sometimes we feel like we have to be marathon runners to benefit from it. Let’s face it, most of us aren’t in any shape for a marathon or triathlon, but here’s the good news: I heard a news story last week about how regular, […]...
6. MedicareCard.com – NIH Announces Ten Awards for Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities The National Institutes of Health announced today the awarding of 10 new Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities, designed to better understand and address inequities associated with the two leading causes of death in the United States — cancer and heart disease....
7. NIH-funded study finds new possible risk factor of heart disease, Medicare NIH-funded study finds new possible risk factor of heart disease, Medicare...
8. American Heart Month American Heart Month...
9. Information about the quality of the care hospitals give patients who are being treated for a heart attack information about the quality of the care hospitals give patients who are being treated for a heart attack...
10. New NIH cookbook encourages families to eat healthfully Nutritious meals can be tasty and easy to prepare, according to a new family cookbook from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health....
11. MedicareCard.com – NIH Podcast Shines Light on Prescription Drug Abuse in Women NIH Podcast...
12. Bypass surgery, medications both options to be considered for heart failure patients with coronary artery disease A new study found that coronary artery bypass surgery added to medical therapy for selected chronic heart failure patients offered benefits over medical therapy alone. The combination of the two treatment approaches reduced the combined rate of deaths and heart-related hospital stays by 15 percent, although the total number of deaths between the two groups […]...
13. Medicare, Risk of Newborn Heart Defects, Increases with Maternal Obesity The more obese a woman is when she becomes pregnant, the greater the likelihood that she will give birth to an infant with a congenital heart defect, according to a study conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the New York state Department of Health....
14. Delayed stem cell therapy following heart attack is safe but not effective Stem cells obtained from bone marrow, known as BMCs, can be safely injected into people 2-3 weeks following a heart attack, reports a new clinical trial supported by the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health. However, while safe, the BMCs did not improve heart function six months […]...
15. Medicare, Very low birthweight Down syndrome infants at high risk for heart, lung disorders Very low birthweight Down syndrome infants are at higher risk for disorders of the heart and lungs than are very low birthweight infants who do not have a chromosomal variation, according to a study by a National Institutes of Health research network....