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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: Heart Attack, Mike Jefferson, Fires, Cardiac Catheterization
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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: Heart Disease, Birth Defects, Diseases and Illnesses, Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia), Hospitals and Clinics
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New Heart Procedure at Carilion. Can it Replace Open Heart Surgery?
On this Valentine's week news of a new heart procedure that's now being done at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Could it take the place of traditional open heart surgery? In some cases the answer is yes. As we age it's not uncommon to develop...
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OUR HEALTH: Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners are helping to meet the growing demand for primary care.
Ten thousand Americans turn 65 every day, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Not only is our population getting older, but it’s also growing at such a rate that by 2025 we will need an additional 52,000 family doctors. This...
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The Test That Saved One Salem Man's Life
WDBJ-TV Anchor/ReporterOne Salem man feels lucky to be alive. If it weren't for a test he had done at LewisGale Medical Center he might not be. Jerry Brinkley is a husband, father and a grandfather who loves collecting, sitting on the front porch and talking walks with his...Tags: Salem (New London, Connecticut), Heart Attack, Weight, Overweight, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Health history info important for detecting heart conditions in high school athletes
It's made national headlines - two high school athletes die within a week from undetected heart problems, right after competition.
Heart abnormalities lead to the sudden deaths of 1 in 100,000 athletes.
Doctor Joelle Miller, a pediatric cardiologist...Tags: Symptoms, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Physical Conditions, History, Athletes
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Roanoke woman suffers heart attack at 56
WDBJ-TV Anchor/ReporterIt's the number one killer of women in America. It is heart disease. One Roanoke woman found out and survived to tell her story. Patty Maze was at her Roanoke home when it happened. "It kind of started out as indigestion or what I thought was...Tags: High Blood Pressure, Heart Disease, Heart Attack, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Physical Conditions
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Heart Health Event Coming Up in Roanoke
February isn't just a month to love your significant other; it's also a month to love your heart by keeping it healthy.
There's an event coming up to help with that--just in time for Valentine's Day.
The second annual Red Dress Tea will be held on...Tags: High Blood Pressure, Heart Disease, Physical Conditions, Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Medical Professionals
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Healing the Heart through the Wrist
WDBJ-TV Anchor/ReporterIt's a medical procedure that's done a lot, sometimes five or six times a day at Lewis Gale Medical Center. It's where a doctor places a tube into a patient's blood vessels to look at what's going on in a person's heart and vessels. It's also used to...Tags: Heart Attack, Heart Disease, Physical Conditions, Surgery, Heart Problems
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Knowing the facts about high blood pressure
About one in three Americans has high blood pressure, and nearly one-third doesn't know it. Misinformation is abundant when it comes to this common condition. It can sneak up on you or be a life-long problem. High blood pressure comes in many forms. ...Tags: High Blood Pressure, Salt, Heart Attack, Blood Pressure Increase, Symptoms
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Metabolic syndrome has declined, some risks persist
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Compared to a decade ago, fewer Americans have a cluster of risk factors that together can signal heart troubles and diabetes down the line, according to a new study. But while so-called metabolic syndrome is declining, some...Tags: Kidney Disease, Heart Disease, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Colleges and Universities, Chemical Industry
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AstraZeneca, Bristol diabetes drug disappoints in key test
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb's diabetes drug Onglyza failed to reduce heart risks in a large clinical study, disappointing investors who had thought it might demonstrate an edge over rivals. The companies, which jointly sell...Tags: Heart Disease, Heart Attack, Chemical Industry, Medical Research, Stroke
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