Lowering your Cholesterol

High cholesterol can be a scary precursor to heart disease or it can be a wake-up call that you need to make some changes in your life to increase your life span. Make some small modifications and you should get that number back under control.

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Automated External Defibrillator’s and the Workplace: It one needed?

Written by Laura Frost Most workplaces have a first aid kit. But what happens if an employee, customer, or visitor suddenly collapses from cardiac arrest? Bandages and antiseptic aren’t going to help restart a heart. That’s where an Automated External Defibrillator, or AED, becomes critically important. The American Heart Association reports that approximately 10,000 cardiac […]

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Survival story of a cardiac arrest victim walking to work

Gas is expensive. Cars carrying commuters add huge amounts of pollutants to our already dirty air. By walking to work, those hardy souls who leave the auto at home and hop into a pair of sneakers for the daily trip on foot are getting some valuable exercise and saving the planet, too. But for one 58-year-old […]

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