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APRIL 2009
MAY 2009
- Five shocking truths about your heart
- Heart Disease 101
- The ‘bikini approach’ to women’s health research
- Is chocolate good for women’s heart health?
- ‘Knowing & Going’ – act fast when heart attack symptoms hit
- 20 things women don’t know about FAT
- Misdiagnosis in women’s heart attacks
- If the fat won’t kill you, the salt will
- “You look great!” – and other things you shouldn’t say to heart patients
JUNE 2009
- Women fatally unaware of heart attack symptoms
- Monday morning heart attacks
- ‘Time equals muscle’ for women’s heart attacks
- Are you a priority in your own life?
- Women & heart disease: obesity is contagious
- Heart attack – or an attack of heartburn?
- Is alcohol unsafe for all women?
- Do low iron stores protect women against heart disease?
- Women’s heart disease and chronic stress
- Women’s top 10 health threats
- Flossing, brushing and heart disease
- Mediterranean Diet – it’s all Greek to me
- Women laugh their way to better heart health
- Meet the 2009 ‘Women’s Health Heroes‘
- Poor marriage = poor heart health for women
JULY 2009
- My cardiologist: “the devil himself”
- Depressing news about depression and women’s heart disease
- Health information online: how to tell the trash from the truth
- The pain of angina comes in four flavours
- If Disney ran your hospital: what would Mickey & Minnie do?
- Sleep problems can mean heart problems for women
- Female cardiologists chat about heart disease
- Food trends: why we eat the way we do
- An open letter to all hospital employees
- Can exercise trigger a heart attack?
- Heart-healthy living – on a budget
- Women’s angina pain can be both physical and emotional
- Women’s waist size predictive of heart disease
- My favourite heart-healthy recipe
- Even heart patients can learn to be optimists
- Forget Type A:women’s heart disease risk higher for Type D personalities
- In praise of afternoon naps
- Deep thoughts about death and heart disease
- Get over yourself: how to stop boring others with your heart attack story
- A letter from your heart disease
- “But you don’t look sick . . . ”
- What overweight women may have in common with drug addicts
- When you’re having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
- Don’t eat any food you’ve ever seen advertised
- Wanted: volunteers to eat chocolate every day for U.K. study
- Tai chi for women’s heart health
- Cardiovascular ‘shadow diseases’ – two ailments for the price of one
- Young, pregnant – and a deadly heart condition
- My favourite recipe for heart-healthy chocolate fudge brownies
- Innocence lost: my life after a heart attack
AUGUST 2009
- Body fat: brown, white, visceral, belly, butt
- A kindergarten kid’s guide to heart disease
- Heart healthy eating advice from Uganda
- My favourite recipe for Watermelon, Feta and Black Olive Salad
- Doctors on the take: how to read the fine print in cardiac research studies
- Is sudden cardiac arrest the same as a heart attack?
- Five surprising myths about excess weight
- Women’s cardiac care: is it gender difference or gender bias?
- Enter this heart healthy recipe makeover contest
- Why you should not ask: “How are you doing?”
- How optimism can help your heart health
- Is family stress hurting your heart?
- Medical journalism watchdog slams cardiac ‘polypill’ news hype
- How does it really feel to have a heart attack? Women survivors tell their stories
- Why are heart patients who smoke going home from hospital still smoking?
- Chocolate-covered bacon, and other ways to alter your brain chemistry
- Bypassing bypass surgery by growing new arteries
- What doctors really think about ‘Medical Googlers’
- Medical ghostwriting scandal: doctors paid to sign their names to drug company lies
- Finally! Scientists describe what really causes women’s heart attacks!
- De-junk your kitchen to start heart-healthy eating
- Are ‘goodism’ and self-sacrifice linked to women’s heart disease?
- Cardiologist’s plan: “Fat people need not apply for Cleveland Clinic jobs”
- Not just for soldiers anymore: Post Taumatic Stress after a heart attack
- Terrified of tofu? Enjoy these non-meat alternatives you’ll love
- Why you should have your heart attack in Canada
- Biology or bias? Women twice as likely to die after heart attack than men
- What if everybody told the truth about medical ghostwriting?
SEPTEMBER 2009
- Peripheral Artery Disease: women under-diagnosed
- Heart Attack Grill: Over 350 lbs? Eat free!
- A tale of two women: how we react to a heart attack diagnosis
- Free Heart-Healthy Weight Plan wants you for 12 weeks to change habits
- New site launched: “The Ethical Nag: Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed
- Cardiologist’s Response: Should I Take a Heart-Formulated Vitamin Supplement?
- Are Chubby Thighs Good for Heart Health?
- When I’m 64: aging and women’s heart disease
- How that ache can signal undiagnosed depression
- Why we don’t crave broccoli
- Three-quarters of unused drugs are tossed out or flushed
- Why wouldn’t you call 911 when heart attack symptoms strike?
- Happiness flowchart
- Visit the Medpedia Heart Disease Community
- The fall of home cooking and the rise of heart disease
- More women die of heart disease each year than men
- Happy World Heart Day!
- “Wouldn’t I Be Silly To Make It Myself?”
- Doctors should start screening teenagers for heart disease risk factors
- Artery-clogging trans fat banned in BC restaurants today
- Top 10 hazardous foods you’ll never find in my kitchen
OCTOBER 2009
- Top 10 hazardous foods you won’t find in my kitchen
- One-minute quiz: women at risk for heart disease
- What other diagnosis doubles your risk of heart attack?
- How heart patients can avoid food poisoning by avoiding these foods entirely
NOVEMBER 2009
DECEMBER 2009
JANUARY 2010
FEBRUARY 2010
MARCH 2010
APRIL 2010
MAY 2010
JUNE 2010
JULY 2010
AUGUST 2010
- How soon are heart patients safely fit to fly?
- Is this a revolution in health care education?
- My love-hate relationship with my little black box
- Which one’s right? Eight ways that patients and families can view heart disease
SEPTEMBER 2010
- Mary Maxwell: “How old age sort of crept up on me … “
- “I’m not depressed!” – and other ways we deny the stigma of mental illness following a heart attack
- What is causing my chest pain?
- The heart patient’s chronic lament: “I’m sorry. Excuse me. I don’t mean to be a bother.”
- Long distance running: safe for women’s hearts?
- Say what? Do patients really hear what doctors tell them?
- A foreshortened future
OCTOBER 2010
- Heart screening scans – or scams?
- What women with heart disease can learn from “pinkwashing” this month
- The new country called Heart Disease
- Cats or dogs: which pet can help you avoid heart disease?
- Thirty heart-healthy ways to love your veggies (and fruit!)
- Is your doctor too cozy with Big Pharma?
- How we adapt after a heart attack may depend on what we believe this diagnosis means
- “Waking Up Is Hard To Do” – fun in the O.R!
- When grief morphs into depression: five tips for coping with heart disease
NOVEMBER 2010
- Four ingredients in the heart patient’s recipe for stress
- Top 10 Tips On How To Treat Patients – my guest post on “Better Health”
- Vegetarian-friendly religions
- Disregard that Cough CPR internet chain letter
- How a woman’s heart is different from a man’s
- How hearing the diagnosis can hurt worse than the heart attack
- “Stress creep”: are you like the frog in the pot of boiling water?
- Allergic reaction or heart attack: can you tell the difference?
- “After The Diagnosis”: two books, same title, one hope
DECEMBER 2010
- Denial and its deadly role in surviving a heart attack
- Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as a broken heart
- Pregnancy complications strongly linked to heart disease
- “Alcohol Helps Heart Bypass Patients!” Good news or bad reporting?
- When your artery tears – “Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection“
- The Christmas Truce – 1914
- The days are long, but the years are short: how being present can be good for your heart
- Top 10 posts from Heart Sisters for 2010
JANUARY 2011
- The Lancet: “A New Year’s message from 100 years ago”
- “Catastrophizing” – why we feel sicker than we are
- Heart attack funnies: “You suck at pessimism!”
- “The winter I lived on potatoes – and loved it!“
- Stupid things doctors say to heart patients
- We survive – but do we ever recover from a heart attack?
- Why we keep telling – and re-telling – our heart attack stories
- Do you know the difference between V.T. and T.V?
- Heart Sisters featured in More magazine’s February issue
FEBRUARY 2011 - It’s HEART MONTH!
- The myth of the ‘Hollywood Heart Attack’ for women
- Woman who couldn’t afford health insurance dies of heart attack
- How much do you know about heart attacks? Take this quiz
- Here’s your basic heart-smart grocery shopping list
- When doctors become patients
- Do you know the new 2011 heart health guidelines for women?
- TV reporter Jennifer Donelan survives heart attack at age 36
MARCH 2011
- How to communicate your heart symptoms to your doctor
- Do you know what causes heart disease?
- Pam Peterson wonders: “Did I turn both of the burners off?”
- It wasn’t heart disease – but what was it?
- Is Daylight Saving Time hurting your heart?
- What does a girl have to do to get her heart attack noticed?
- Too cold to walk today? Take a heart-smart mall walk!
- Study: statins are over-prescribed for healthy adults
APRIL 2011
- Are you too hard on yourself?
- Heart disease: “You’ve come a long way, baby!” – or have you?
- Cardiac nurse learns firsthand about women’s heart disease
- Why are women with atrial fibrillation treated differently than men?
- Are women being left behind in cardiac research?
- Why taking a shower is so exhausting for heart attack survivors
- Patient privacy, modesty, and staff burnout
MAY 2011
- ‘Heart Attack & Soul’: the perfect gift for the heart attack survivor
- Should heart patients make a Bucket List?
- Seven ways to misdiagnose a heart attack
- Getting help during a heart attack: ‘delayers’ vs ‘survivors’
- “You know you have heart disease when . . . “
- Apply now to attend the 2011 WomenHeart Symposium at Mayo Clinic
- How expecting recovery can help heart attack survivors
- When a pet dies: another definition of broken heart
JUNE 2011
- Do you think too much? How ruminating hurts your heart
- Are you a ‘health seeker’ or a ‘disease seeker’?
- Ranking the prestige of diseases: guess what’s ranked #1?
- Why your heart needs work – not rest! – after a heart attack
- Resilience: it’s hard to feel like a victim when you’re laughing
- Heart-healthy weight: secrets of the always-slim
- Is your doctor telling you to “meditate, eat veggies, walk, and quit smoking?” If not, why not?
- Surprising trends in women’s heart disease
JULY 2011
- “I started vomiting – and it turned out to be a heart attack”
- A doctor discovers the heart-smart joys of eating vegan
- How many times has your heart beaten so far?
- Do you know the difference between a pacemaker and a implantable defibrillator?
- Can denial ever be a good thing for heart patients?
- Is is post-heart attack depression – or just feeling sad?
- When eating chocolate is the only right thing to do
AUGUST 2011
- How swearing during a heart attack reduces pain
- 10 non-drug ways to treat depression in heart patients
- How to be a “good” patient
- Is it a heart attack – or a panic attack?
- What prevents heart disease “better than any drug”?
- Heart disease = most costly condition for women
- Why are so many patients dissatisfied with their doctors?
- Marriage triples our bypass surgery survival rates – but only if it’s happy
SEPTEMBER 2011
- “God punishes bad children!” – or, why you have heart disease
- All the SCAD ladies, put your hands up!
- Heart-healthy homemade ice cream – with just one ingredient!
- How humour can help – or hurt – your heart disease recovery
- Is cold water swimming okay for my heart?
- In praise of solitude after a heart attack
- A heart film to watch before the ‘Pink Season’ gets here
- Does surviving a heart attack make you a better person?
OCTOBER 2011
- The effects of sugar on heart disease
- Top 10 tips from the author of ‘How To Be Sick’
- The concept of ‘Mansplaining‘ explained for you
- What heart patients can learn from cancer patients
- Three things that make you happy – and three things that won’t
- Do you know why you should eat fish twice a week?
- Why female shift workers may be at higher risk for heart disease
- Women under age 55 fare worse after heart attack than men
- The sad reality of women’s heart disease hits home
NOVEMBER 2011
- Researchers openly mock the “myth” of women’s unique heart attack symptoms
- Six life lessons from Dan’s cat, Annie
- “Jenny, know your numbers!” – a free Mayo Clinic app
- Why are hospital staff wearing uniforms, scrubs and white coats in public?
- Yale Heart Study asks why we wait so long before seeking help in mid-heart attack
- “But what about the men?!”
- “Gaslighting” – or, why women are so darned emotional during their heart attacks
- ‘Holiday Heart Syndrome’ in women
DECEMBER 2011
- “Gigi” – an E.R. doc’s warning to his residents
- What your body fat really looks like
- Advice for heart patients too tired to do housework
- “Seeking Social Solace”: why aren’t heart patients going online?
- Pregnancy: the ultimate cardiac stress test
- How to have a waste-free festive family dinner this year
- The lost art of common courtesy in medicine
- Year in review: Top 10 Heart Sisters posts in 2011
JANUARY 2012
- How to stare down that plate of chocolate chip cookies
- Misdiagnosis: the perils of “unwarranted certainty”
- Take your pick: carrots, eggs or coffee beans?
- Could heart disease have its roots in your mother’s womb?
- Homicide in the E.R. – the tragic case of Beatrice Vance
- If I’d had my heart attack decades ago . . .
- Listen up, ladies: 16 things I’ve been meaning to tell you
FEBRUARY 2012
- Your heart health: “Make time now, so you can have time later!”
- Women live longer – but not healthier – lives than men
- Why don’t patients listen to doctors’ heart-healthy advice?
- Why feel helpless about your coronary artery disease?
- Six Rules for navigating your next doctor’s appointment
- When your mother dies
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