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Guard Your Heart
When it comes to your heart being protective is not optional.
How To Ensure A Safe Industrial Working Environment With Machine Guards
Safety, a word you hear on a daily basis. You have countless meetings on profitability, streamlining, and safety. All of these affect your company - from OSHA fines and liability …
What Is Inflation Guard For Home Insurance?
Home insurance coverage needs to change with the times—even if you don’t make any upgrades or renovations to a house.<br>As costs rise, your homeowners coverage needs to keep pace. If it doesn’t, you’ll end up underinsured, which can be a very costly situation. To account for this, homeowners insura
Why People Remove Conveyor Safety Guards
When safety guards and covers are removed (or never installed), safe conveyors become dangerous. Get to the root cause and be sure your conveyors are guarded.
How We’re Affected by the Lies Our Abuse Tells Us
In my previous post I talked about the lies that abuse tells us. I described them as The Lying Triad and Its Dark Guard – shame, self-blame and low self-worth protected by powerlessness. While that article listed a few of the effects survivors suffer...
11 people open up about how they found out they were being cheated on
Heart Attack vs. Cardiac Arrest: Why They're Not the Same
One is a plumbing problem, while the other is electrical
Toxic Workplace Is Bad For Heart Health, Study Finds
The study suggested that negative work-environment increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases among full time employees.
Traumatic childhood could increase heart disease risk in adulthood
Children who grow up in distressing or traumatic environments are more likely to have a heart attack or stroke by the time they reach middle age, according to a new study.
Long work hours can increase stroke and heart attack risk
A study reveals why workaholics may want to consider cutting back their office time.
How hospitals are improving heart attack care, survival
In order to continue improving survival and prevention of heart damage, potential heart attack victims need to take action more quickly, heart experts said.
Mercy Heart Health Minute: A-fib ablations patient benefits and risks
What is a STEMI heart attack?
Knowing how to take action quickly during a heart attack could save a life or help you or a family member avoid permanent disability. That’s especially true in the case of a serious kind of heart attack known as a “STEMI.”<br>Diagnosing a STEMI<br>In a STEMI heart attack (ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction), a coronary artery in the heart is completely (not partially) blocked. The damage is so severe it causes electrical changes on an EKG, which alerts medical teams they must act quickly…
How a Healthy Heart Can Help Lower Risk of Dementia
Is It a Heart Attack or a Panic Attack?
The two can feel very similar—so how do you know the difference?
Aspirin: Protects Brain as Well as Heart
Low-dose aspirin may help forestall cognitive decline in elderly women at high cardiovascular risk, Swedish researchers found.
Lonely Hearts: When Intimacy is Missing for Caregiver Spouses
A sometimes overlooked yet life-altering issue for those caregiving for an aging or ailing spouse is the lack of intimacy that can arise as a result of the caree's illness. We consulted with experts on ways to cope with this sensitive issue.
When to go to the emergency department for heart palpitations
Most people barely notice their hearts beating. And that’s natural. But any noticeable change in the heartbeat should be concerning.…
Beyond HEART: Building a Better Chest Pain Protocol
The University of Maryland Medical System built on the HEART score in order to design a unique low risk chest pain protocol, and the early results have been positive. Patients with chest pain that is considered low-risk for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are a disposition challenge for emergency physicians. Many factors affect the decision toRead More
