Cardiology

Is Fasting Good For Your Heart? American Heart Month: Day 22 (Part 2)

Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Yale Heart Study, Yale School of Nursing, Ash Wednesday, Angelo A. Alonzo, Harvard, Megan Parmenter, Diet, Cardiology, Suzanne O'Malley, Fasting, Womenhealth, Yale University, Heart Health, Heart Disease, Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Attack, Healthy Living News

Eat fat and stay fit? Seriously? Yes, according to Dr. Alan Goldhamer who explored the idea of fasting as a medicine.

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Nicholson Crying? Post-Heart Attack Depression -- Heart Month: Day 19

Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Cleveland Clinic, Depression, Yale Heart Study, Health, Yale University, Heart Attack, Suzanne O'Malley, Millionhearts, Womenheart, Cardiology, Harvard University, Personal Health, Cardiologists, Healthy Living News

Actor Jack Nicholson realistically acted the post-heart attack depression that 50 percent of survivors experience following a heart attack. His character experiences an unusual (for him) emotional moment in Nancy Meyer's 2003 comedy "Something's Gotta Give" with Diane Keaton.

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Watch: Man Survived 96 Minutes Without A Heartbeat

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Howard Snitzer, Video, Cpr, Emergency Medical Technicians, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Defibrillator, Capnograph, Emergency Medicine, Heart Attack, Aed, Cardiac Arrest, Heart Attacks, Cardiology, Home News

In January, 54 year-old Howard Snitzer suffered a heart attack outside of a grocery store in Goodhue, Minn. Luckily, two first responders were across ...

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WATCH: This Man Survived After 96 Minutes With No Pulse

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Howard Snitzer, Video, Cpr, Emergency Medical Technicians, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Defibrillator, Capnograph, Emergency Medicine, Heart Attack, Aed, Cardiac Arrest, Heart Attacks, Cardiology, Home News

In January, 54 year-old Howard Snitzer suffered a heart attack outside of a grocery store in Goodhue, Minn. Luckily, two first responders were across ...

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S.J. Perelman, Humorist, Cardiology a Specialty

Stephen J. Gertz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cardiology, S. J. Perelman, The New Yorker, Rare Books, Humor, Books, Woody Allen, Book Collecting, Marx Brothers, Medicine, Comedy, Books News

So, you wake up at 12:20 AM in a sweat, dizzy, pressure in your chest. You've been here before, twenty-one years ago, when you were thirty-eight: you ...

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PLAY > SKIP: New Music for Nov. 2

Shawn Amos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neil Diamond, N.E.R.D, Good Charlotte, Nothing, Nomad Knows, National Ransom, Dreams, Elvis Costello, Cardiology, Black Dub, Entertainment News

This week Elvis Costello pretends to be American, N.E.R.D. plays with the beat, Neil Diamond picks apart other people's songs, and Black Dub is quite possibly the coolest band you've never heard. Until now.

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Fast Food Restaurants Contemplating Offering Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs With Meals

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Pharmacotherapy, Cholesterol, Katz, Healthy, Prevention, Health, Dr. David Katz, Statins, Fast Food, Heart Disease, News, Conditions, Cardiology, Healthy Living News

A recent editorial proposes that fast food restaurants consider giving out a cholesterol-lowering statin drug with each meal, just as they give away little packets of ketchup. Surely, this must be a joke, right?

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Help Us Keep Hearts Healthy This Valentine's Day

Andrew Van Tosh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Angioplasty, Valentine's Day, Federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicare, Physician Practice Expense Information, Cardiology, New York News

An arbitrary rule put into effect by the federal Center for Medicare threatens the progress we have made on heart health by slashing reimbursement for cardiology office visits and imaging by as much as 35%.

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Doctor of the Heart: A Book Review

Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Memoir, Physicians, Healthcare Reform, Leonid Brezhnev, Healthcare, Golda Meir, Cardiology, Books News

It's not every day that a novelist gets to review his own father's memoir. The publication of Doctor of the Heart is perfectly timed amidst dissecting scrutiny of our national healthcare system.

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What Health Reform Can Learn From Cleveland Clinic

newsweek.com | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cleveland Clinic, Smoking, Health Care Reform, Modern Medicine, Hospitals, Obesity, Health Care, Medicine, Cardiology, Healthy Living News

A century after Henry Ford began building cars on an assembly line, Cleveland Clinic has brought that technique to medicine, updated to reflect the la...

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Heart Attack Rates Fall 17% After Smoking Bans Enacted: Analyses

USA Today | Liz Szabo | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cigarettes, Cardiology, Smoking, Smokers, Smoking Bans, Health, Non-Smokers, Smoking Ban Effects, Smoking Laws, Secondhand Smoke, Heart Disease, Heart Attacks, Healthy Living News

Two separate analyses released Monday each found that heart attack rates fall 17% within a year after smoking bans take effect. One analysis, which in...

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