Haley or Matthew's Story: Nutrition During Pregnancy
Women often become more health conscious when they become pregnant, and that translates into a more healthy diet. Undernourished pregnant women have a higher risk of miscarriage, premature birth, and babies with birth de..
Haley or Matthew's Story: Planned Pregnancy, A
There is much a woman needs to learn prior to conceiving a child and during the 38 weeks of pregnancy. For example, the risk of neural tube defect is reduced by taking folic acid in the pre conceptual and early conceptua..
Harm Avoidance (Part One)
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about harm avoidance, which he explains is the opposite of novelty seeking. In the words of Dr. Hamer, people who are..
Harm Avoidance (Part Two)
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, expands on his discussion of harm avoidance, which he explains refers to a group of personality traits that includes depres..
Healthcare Equality
Professor of Law and Medicine Alex Capron talks about what he calls the "social obligation" to establish a healthcare system to which every American has equal access.
Healthy Pregnancy
Dr. Ed McCabe, Chief of the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, talks about some of the things women can do to have a healthy pregnancy. He states that the incidence of neural tube defects could be reduced by 50 to 75% i..
Heart of the Matter: Angioplasty Procedure, The
If only one or two of a patient's coronary arteries are narrowed, a physician may suggest an angioplasty procedure. Dr. David Faxon was a young physician in Boston in the early 1980s when he attended a session in which A..
Heart of the Matter: Atherosclerosis, a Sign of Trouble for the Heart
In an average lifetime, the heart beats more than two and a half billion times, unless coronary heart disease interferes with its functioning. Narrowing of the coronary arteries that supply oxygen and nutrients to the he..
Heart of the Matter: Cardiovascular Care Before and After Heart Attacks
The mission of cardiac specialists is to take patients with known heart disease and aggressively teach them to understand their risk factors and improve their lifestyle Prevention needs to start early in life, but at any..
Heart of the Matter: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
In the procedure known as coronary artery bypass graft surgery, blood vessels are taken from another part of the body and grafted to the aorta, the large artery emerging from the hart. The other ends of the vessels are g..