How Wearables Are Improving Heart Care
Learn the function and role of wearables in heart care, and why more cardiologists are encouraging them for their patients.
Content Aggregation Page
-
-
The One Prenatal Appointment You Should Never Skip
When you're pregnant, your calendar quickly fills up with doctor's appointments, ultrasounds and more. But too many women skip what could be the most important pregnancy checkup of all: the one before...
-
3 Reasons to Start Healthy Habits Before Bariatric Surgery
Taking steps to improve your health before bariatric surgery can impact your overall weight loss and long-term wellness.
-
Women’s Health Screenings for Your To-Do List
When it comes to your health, regular screenings are essential for maintaining your overall well-being.
-
4 Heart-Health Strategies for Cancer Survivors
Here are four proactive strategies that you and your loved ones can use to keep you feeling your best:
-
Are Your Cold Feet Trying to Warn You?
As a cardiologist specializing in peripheral vascular disease, I'm often asked, "Doc, why are my feet always cold? What do cold feet mean?"
-
Is It a Cold, the Flu or COVID-19?
As we enter flu season, there will be even more symptomatic "noise" for us to sort through. To help protect both your physical and mental health, here is an easy way to distinguish between symptoms of...
-
What to Expect During a Cardiac Stress Test
A cardiac stress test uses exercise to help diagnose heart disorders that are easier to find when the heart is under stress, or working harder.
-
3 Weight Loss Surgery Myths, Debunked
Weight loss surgery remains one of the safest and most effective treatment options for people struggling with weight and diabetes. But you wouldn’t know it if you spend a lot of time on social media.
-
Bariatric Surgery: Why I Do What I Do
Bariatric surgery is one of the few areas of medicine where people actively come to get well. Unlike appointments for the flu, acute gallbladder pain or a life-threatening diagnosis, seeing a medical...
-
Final Day: Grateful Hearts, Theirs and Ours
Friday marked our last clinic day of the week. It seems impossible that a week has already gone by. Our team started the week as strangers and now we are like family.
-
Day 4: An ER on the Beach
On the fourth day of our mission trip to El Salvador, we set up our medical clinic at the Cooperativa de Pescadores Los Blancos, a fish market of sorts where vendors come to sell their goods. The...
-
Day 3: Teachers and Partners
We are seeing great partnerships evolve between our doctors, residents and medical student interpreters in El Salvador this week.