Workplace discrimination linked to high blood pressure risk
Apr 26, 2023
People who feel they are discriminated against at work may face a substantially higher risk of developing high blood pressure, new research shows.
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Long COVID in children still poses plenty of questions
Apr 25, 2023
Post-COVID conditions in the young can be debilitating, with physical and psychological symptoms. But researchers are starting to unravel things.
Since her heart transplant, she treats every day like a birthday
Apr 24, 2023
For Long Island's Jen Lentini, stomach pain as a teen led doctors to find an enlarged heart caused by heart failure.
Concerns remain as COVID-19 pandemic weighs on Hispanic people in US
Apr 21, 2023
The coronavirus, and all that has come with it, continues to disproportionately affect Hispanic people and their health.
Exercise kept her family history of heart disease at bay for decades – until she hit 65
Apr 20, 2023
Aware that heart disease ran in her family, Jana Turner exercised and ate a healthy diet. But at 65, she could no longer outrun her genes.
Her parents needed a Spanish-speaking doctor. She's becoming one to break down health care barriers.
Apr 19, 2023
As she was growing up, Melissa Rodríguez Mendoza saw a need for Spanish-speaking health care workers when her parents struggled to navigate doctor visits. Now, she's in medical school.
Pregnant women with depression may face higher heart disease, stroke risk after delivery
Apr 19, 2023
Depression during pregnancy may put women at increased risk for heart disease and stroke in the two years following childbirth, new research suggests.
What is commotio cordis, which NFL player Damar Hamlin says stopped his heart?
Apr 18, 2023
Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin says commotio cordis caused his "Monday Night Football" collapse. Here's an explanation of the rare, heart-stopping condition.
On a snowy day, the warmth of a stranger kept one man alive
Apr 18, 2023
Most people who experience a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital die. Justin Stroh survived, largely due to help from a passing stranger.
This food expert aspires to a diet full of goodness – but he didn't always
Apr 17, 2023
Christopher Gardner talks about the transformation from his teen years and offers tasty options for your own kitchen.
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