An African proverb teaches that a wise person's heart is calm like clear water. This stillness allows for clear thinking and ...

2025 has been a year of profound personal reflection. January started with a devastating jolt as the Pacific Palisades fires swept across my childhood hometown, erasing happy memories in its wake, ...

Simon Keith is, literally, a walking miracle. In 1989, the former soccer standout for at UNLV, made history by becoming the first heart transplant recipient to play professional sports. Keith was the ...

The death of Tim Russert is teaching us a lot about the mechanics of sudden heart attack. First, we're all right to be paranoid. There are roughly 1.2 million heart attacks a year in the U.S., over ...

Life gets tough. We lose track of where the light is. And then a mother shows up — with empathy in her hands, wisdom in her words, and love that never asks for a day off. With Mother’s Day around the ...

Last week, the American College of Cardiology, whose marketing skills approach those of the pharmaceutical industry, provided a stage for clinical trial results comparing ways to prevent heart attacks ...

For over 30 years, a researcher has been studying exercise physiology in animals: African lions and wild dogs, dolphins and whales, coyotes and mountain lions, as well as a few human athletes. She has ...

Ken was 5 years old and he had Tetralogy of Fallot, a constellation of congenital heart defects (Figure 1). He was a fisherman in a blue-tiled operating room, with sea secrets in his eyes. His legs ...