Heart of the Matter: Heart Attack Symptoms for Women Often Differ from Men
Heart attack symptoms for women differ from men. They may not have chest tightness or pain as a warning signal, just indigestion or weakness. Women generally experience heart disease about ten years later than men becaus..
Heart of the Matter: Lowering Your Risk of Heart Disease
There are certain unavoidable risk factors for heart disease, like family history. But there are factors that you can modify to lower your risk of a heart attack: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, cigarette smoking,..
Heart of the Matter: Recognizing Heart Attack Symptoms
One-third to one-half of people with coronary heart diseases are stricken unexpectedly with a heart attack, a myocardial infarction. An infarction is an area of heart muscle that dies because it doesn't receive enough ox..
Heart of the Matter: Techniques Used to Detect the Risk of Heart Disease
Standard diagnostic procedures like an electrocardiogram (EKG) can detect abnormal heartbeats, inadequate blood flow and heart enlargement. A stress test that records the heart beat during exercise finds problems that re..
Helping Families Cope
Dr. Ed McCabe, Chief of the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, talks about his role in helping families cope when they learn they are going to have a child with a genetic abnormality of some type. "My main job in those ..
In Human Terms: Case Manager Plays Key Role in Personalizing Healthcare Service
The demand for the health services the Venice Family Clinic provides is exploding. In order to retain the personal service for which they are known, patients see the same nurse each time they visit, one of three physicia..
In Human Terms: Cholera Epidemic Hits Somalian Refugee Camp
An outbreak of cholera that attacked the Kenyan refugee camp where Dr. Suraj Achar was based dramatically changed the mission of his Doctors Without Borders nutrition team. Antibiotics, IV bags of fluid, and chemicals to..
In Human Terms: Free Comprehensive Healthcare
Last year the Venice Family Clinic recorded more than 80,000 patient visits and filled more than 65,000 free prescriptions. No one paid a cent for the care they so badly needed. Patients range from the homeless to people..
In Human Terms: Human Drive for Nourishment, The
Two girls, ages 4 and 6, walked 10 to 15 kilometers through the desert each day to get a ration of food. The food they took home each Sunday fed their Ethiopian family for a week, so dire was their plight.
In Human Terms: Nutrition-based Mission Aids Somalian Refugees
Suraj Achar had only recently opened his family practice when he left for a six-months assignment with a Doctors Without Borders nutrition-based team in Kenya. The incidence of malnutrition among Somalian refugees, parti..