american heart association

Sugary drinks and the epidemic childhood obesity

Heart disease is often seen as an older person's phenomena. But heart attacks can also occur in younger patients who are seemingly healthy, and caught off guard by the life-changing illness.

Howard County health digest

Exertion from shoveling, walking can cause heart attacks

February is American Hearth Month, and cardiac-arrest survivors are pushing for more CPR training and education statewide

Howard County health digest

Hopkins, other researchers looking to swap implantable defibrillators with something more gentle

Use of statins to be reserved for those at risk of heart attack, stroke

Middle River Volunteer Fire Company recently sold ad space on its ladder truck and a fire engine, becoming what officials believe is the first in the county to do so. Baltimore-based Carroll Home Services will pay the department a monthly fee for the ad, and members say they'll use the money to purchase a power generator.

The Horizon Foundation earlier this week launched a new television ad campaign calling on Coca-Cola to help fight childhood obesity. Starting next week, the $40,000 campaign will hit the air, with 30- and 90-second advertisements playing on broadcasts and cable networks through the Baltimore region during the months of October and November.

Latest attack on Coca-Cola may strike some as unfair but health risk posed by sugary drinks is real and alarming

Roland Park Elementary/Middle School wins a national health award given by the Clinton Foundation in Little Rock. A physical education teacher accepted the award in Arkansas. It's the only public school in the city to win the award.

Some blood vessels don't show up on circulatory system diagrams, or even in the plain light of a laboratory lamp. These are microscopic, forming networks at the ends of the system, feeding living tissue with nutrients and carrying off wastes.