Heart
- A 15 year old Spokane girl learned CPR in High School and a couple days later, had to use it on her grandpa which saved his life. Amazing! This is why it's so important for everyone to learn, and be familiar, with Hands-Only CPR (if not always CPR certified)
- Daylight savings affects the amount of heart attacks. Remind me again why we have it?
- The stress of natural disasters can break people's hearts
- ER physicians discount early signs of strokes among women, minorities, younger people
- New research on mummies tucked away inside them unearths a lesser known fact: heart disease was as common then as it is today. Much to their surprise, when scientists did full-body CT scans of 4,000-year-old mummies they discovered evidence of hardening of the arteries.
Overall Health
- Check out this cool map to compare the health of your county
- Gen-Xers are more likely to have diabetes and poor over health than Baby Boomers
- To get schoolchildren moving, uproot them from classrooms into school gardens, concludes a two-year study
- "Once again we learn that men and women are very different and our medical research and treatments need to be gender- specific" - from a recent study who found that exercise affects mens heart different from womens.
- Keeping your weight down might depend in part on how early you greet the sun, according to a new study that finds a link between bright morning light and a leaner physique. People who were exposed to even moderately bright natural light early in the day — typically between 8 a.m. and noon — had a lower body mass index, or BMI, than folks who got most of their light exposure in the late afternoon.
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