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What is Supraventricular Tachycardia?
Sometimes, a problem with your heart's electrical signals can make it speed up, even when you're not anxious or exercising. When your heart beats t...
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Arrhythmia
If they start in the ventricles, or lower chambers of your heart, they’re called ventricular. Doctors also group them by how they affect your resti...
Read moreWhat is Bradycardia?
Some conditions cause the heart to beat too fast or to flutter. You may simply have a slower-than-normal heart rate that doesn’t cause any symptoms...
Read moreGiant Cell Arteritis (Temporal Arteritis)
Giant cell arteritis, also called temporal arteritis, is a disease that causes your arteries -- blood vessels that carry oxygen from your heart to ...
Read moreWhat Happens in Surgery
A nurse places an IV line in your arm so the doctor can give you fluid and medicine during your operation. When it's time for your surgery, you're ...
Read moreUnderstanding Cochlear Implants
If you're very hard of hearing or deaf, a cochlear implant may help you get back the sounds you miss. The other, the speech processor, you wear beh...
Read moreHome Health Care Tips
Do a combination of aerobic exercise to get your heart pumping (like walking or swimming), resistance exercises to build and maintain your muscles ...
Read moreOlder Adults: How to Avoid Falls At Home
Make sure your light switches are easy to reach, and at the bottom and top of any stairs. Turn the lights on before you get up to move around. If y...
Read moreWhat's Normal Aging?
You have a lot of say-so in how you feel as you grow older -- from your heart and eyes to your skin and bones. You might also notice that you’re no...
Read moreDos and Don'ts of Drug Safety
While experts used to recommend flushing old medication down the toilet, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommends against this because ...
Read moreHow to Save Money on Prescription Drugs
Each insurance company has a list of drugs that they do and don't cover, called a formulary. It's much easier to simply call your insurance company...
Read moreFacts and Fiction of Cloning
'Twins are clones.' Griffin is assistant director of the Roslin Institute -- the lab in Edinburgh, Scotland, where Dolly the cloned sheep was creat...
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