Word: cardiac
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What should patients and their parents do now? Talk to their doctor, especially if the patient has a heart problem or a family history of cardiac trouble...
...ways to take care of your mind, it turns out, is to make sure your heart is performing at its best. And there's nothing like physical activity to promote cardiac fitness. For some people, that will mean participating in an aerobics class three or more times a week. For others, walking as fast as they can half an hour a day most days of the week will do the trick. In fact, all other things being equal, people who engage in a wide variety of physical activities?like walking and biking and dancing and swimming?seem to be better...
...research linking heart and brain health is so strong that as you continue reading this article, you may get the feeling that you've stumbled into a story about how to prevent cardiac disease. But if fear of a heart attack isn't enough to get you to pamper your ticker, fear of senility just might. So think about doing your heart and your head a favor. If you smoke, quit. Get your cholesterol levels and blood pressure checked, and if they are high, get them treated. If you have diabetes, do everything you can to keep it under control...
Retired Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Donald Martino, widely respected for his atonal works, died on Thursday aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean off the coast of Antigua. He was 74. The death was caused by cardiac arrest, which was brought about by complications with his diabetes and occurred while he was vacationing with Lora Martino, his wife of 36 years. Born in Plainfield, N.J. in 1931, Martino taught music for over 20 years. Martino joined the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard in 1983 after teaching at Princeton, Yale, The New England Conservatory, and Brandeis...
...pacer sometimes would go off in his chest and scare the hell out of him. That's a difficult thing to live with right in the middle of Tiny Bubbles." ED BROWN, friend of Hawaiian singer Don Ho, on the crooner's heart problems. Ho is recovering from cardiac stem-cell therapy in Thailand