Heart Disease

Red Yeast Rice : Health Benefits
by MedlinePlus
Red yeast rice (RYR) is the product of yeast ( Monascus purpureus ) grown on rice, and is served as a dietary staple in some Asian countries. It contains several compounds collectively known as Monacolins, substances known to inhibit cholesterol

Pediatric Heart Surgery
Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children's Lives
by Michael Ruhlman
Life and death at the Cleveland Clinic. Walk on Water offers a rare and dramatic glimpse into a world where the health of innocent children and the hopes of white-knuckled families rest in the hands of all-too-human doctors.

Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
by National Cancer Institute
The superior vena cava is thin-walled, and the blood is under low pressure. If a tumor forms in the chest or nearby lymph nodes become swollen (as from lymphoma), the superior vena cava can be squeezed. Blood flow slows.

Arginine
The Arginine Solution: The First Guide to America's New Cardio-Enhancing Supplement
by Robert Fried, Ph.D., Woodson C. Merrell, M.D., James Thornton
If you're now reading these words, chances are you take your own health, and that of your loved ones, very much to heart. The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates called health the greatest of human blessings, a sentiment that has been echoed by poets

A Newer and Kinder Medicine
The Carbohydrate Addict's Healthy Heart Program : Break Your Carbo-Insulin Connection to Heart Disease
by Richard F. Heller, M.S., Ph.D., Rachael F. Heller, Ph.D., Frederic J. Vagnini, M.D.
There was a time when we ate food simply because it tasted good and gave us pleasure. There was a time when we walked just for the enjoyment of it, and when we were done, we felt relaxed and happy. There was a time when we viewed our bodies as givers

Hearth: Blood Vessels and Valves
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Delivery of blood through open vessels is crucial to cardiovascular function. Block a vessel with plaque or a clot, and blood flow backs up, robbing nearby tissues of vital oxygen. Blood can only flow through a smooth conduit.

Three Wishes for a Second Chance
The Carbohydrate Addict's Healthy Heart Program : Break Your Carbo-Insulin Connection to Heart Disease
by Richard F. Heller, M.S., Ph.D., Rachael F. Heller, Ph.D., Frederic J. Vagnini, M.D.
I believe that things happen for a reason or, at least, that with the right attitude something good can come out of even the worst of experiences. I never really stopped believing this, although, for many years, when the challenges were hard and I was

Heart Attack Symptoms, Treating Heart Disease
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Research has shown that people typically wait two hours or more before seeking emergency care for heart attack symptoms. It could be because they are uncertain about their symptoms or concerned that it might be a false alarm.

A Killer of Paupers and Presidents
A Change of Heart: How the People of Framingham, Massachusetts, Helped Unravel the Mysteries of Cardiovascular Disease
by Daniel Levy, M.D., Susan Brink
It was April 12, 1945, and the country was heartbroken. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-second president of the United States, died suddenly in what had come to be known as the Little White House, a cottage in the woods of Pine Mountain near Warm Spring

A Handbook of Health
by Woods Hutchinson
When once the food has been dissolved in the food-tube and absorbed by the cells of its walls, the next problem is how it shall be sent all over the body to supply the different parts that are hungry for it; for we must remember that the real eating

Taking Aspirin To Avoid Heart Attack And Stroke
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In recent years, you may have seen television ads promoting aspirin's ability to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in certain groups of people. You should know that deciding to take an aspirin a day is not as simple as it may seem.

Women's Hearts Are Different
The Women's Healthy Heart Program : Lifesaving Strategies for Preventing and Healing Heart Disease
by Nieca Goldberg, M.D.
One out of every two women will die of heart disease. It is the single greatest health risk for women today-more than stroke and all cancers combined. Women experience heart disease in a fundamentally different way than men do.

How and When To Be Your Own Doctor
by Dr. Isabelle A. Mose, Steve Solomon
Heart disease is one of the major causes of death among North Americans. It evokes images of resuscitation, of desperate races against time, trying to restart an arrested heart before the brain dies. It makes people think of horribly expensive surgery

Malignant Pericardial Effusions
by National Cancer Institute
Pericardial effusion is an increased amount of fluid inside the pericardium, the thin layer of tissue that forms a sac surrounding the heart. The excess fluid causes pressure on the heart, which prevents it from pumping blood normally.

Disturbances of the Heart
by Oliver T. Osborne, M.D.
Of prime importance in the treatment of diseases of the heart is a determination of the exact, or at least approximately exact, condition of its structures and a determination of its ability to work.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
by George M. Gould, M.D., Walter L. Pyle, M.D.
The heart of a man of ordinary size weighs nine ounces, and that of a woman eight; in cases of hypertrophy, these weights may be doubled, although weights above 25 ounces are rare. According to Osler, Beverly Robinson describes a heart weighing 53 ounces

Common Congenital Heart Defects
The Parent's Guide to Children's Congenital Heart Defects: What They Are, How to Treat Them, How to Cope With Them
by Gerri Freid Kramer, Shari Maurer
Definition/anatomy: A VSD is a hole or opening between the right and the left ventricles. It may be very small, in which case surgery isn't necessary. The majority of these VSDs become smaller or even close on their own.

Understanding Cholesterol : Healthy Eating for All
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Despite impressive declines in mortality rates over the past 20 years, coronary heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States. It is the number one killer of both men and women, claiming more than 500,000 American lives each year.

Prologue
An Arrow Through the Heart
by Deborah Daw Heffernan
Statistics are aerial photographs. The photographer in the airplane circling high above us looks for the big picture - where land gives way to water, where mountains rise, where the desert begins.

Spring
An Arrow Through the Heart
by Deborah Daw Heffernan
There is a weight on my chest. Right between my breasts, pressing on my breastbone — as though the atmosphere ripped open a shaft from the heavens to me and the sky poured down onto this one spot. Observant, detached, slowing down, breathing careful