By Jennifer Harrison With a pandemic on the rise, there is a concern that people are embracing fear and ignoring early signs of a heart attack or stroke. “We want […]
Cardiology
Spot a Stroke
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Detecting Heart Disease
Know the Risk Factors and Practice Heart Healthy Habits By Colin McCandless The numbers for heart disease are staggering. It’s the leading cause of death both for women and men […]
Atrial Fibrillation Technology
By John Torsiello Electrophysiologist Darren Sidney, M.D., with Charleston Heart Specialists, became South Carolina’s first physician to implant a next-generation device to reduce the risk of stroke for patients with […]
Lowcountry Heart Walk: Why We Walk
As the regional market president of Synovus Bank, Tyre Moore, who is also a father and dedicated family man, leads an active lifestyle, one that includes exercise on a regular […]
Alzheimer’s and Heart Disease – The Head and the Heart
In the literary sense, the head and the heart are often figuratively disconnected. But in the biological sense, there is increasing evidence of a significant link between Alzheimer’s and heart […]
Heart Disease Isn’t Just for Old People
Information concerning virtually any subject is readily available to anyone with access to the internet – which is just about everybody, especially those who have grown up using their smartphones […]
Changing Your Life: Regenerative Cellular Therapy
None of this is necessary, of course, if you choose regenerative cellular therapy at the first sign that something is wrong. Once your joints start to degenerate, they will continue down that painful path until you can’t rotate your shoulder, turn your hips or support your weight with your knees and ankles. Your options, if […]
What Everyone Needs to Know About Strokes
Nobody likes to think about having a potentially life-threatening medical event like a stroke, but being able to identify the symptoms of a stroke and react accordingly could be the difference between life and death and certainly can make a difference in a person’s quality of life afterward. A stroke is a medical emergency defined […]
Heart Health: Start Now, Not Later
Heart Health. Start Now. Not Later As we learned in school, an object at rest tends to stay at rest. We can fight back against the two-headed monster of heart failure and obesity with a simple 1-2-3 plan for a healthy heart: Know your blood pressure. Your heart’s an amazing muscle, but it can only […]