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...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...
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
...first thing you ought to do when faced with a person suffering cardiac arrest is to call 911, if possible, and that recommendation remains unchanged. You then immediately begin administering CPR, which, according to the old rules, consists of 15 chest compressions, followed by two mouth-to-mouth breaths, then another 15 compressions, another two breaths and so on. The new guidelines call for raising the compressions from 15 to 30, while keeping the two breaths the same...
That may sound like a simple change, but it was based on the work of nearly 400 cardiac specialists reviewing thousands of studies of heart attacks. Turns out that with all the shifting back and forth between chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth breaths, valuable time was being lost. According to the AHA's Dr. Michael Sayre, the new guidelines place more emphasis on the heart and are also simpler. "Push hard, and push fast...