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By Tom Seymour Reviewed by Alana Biggers, MD, MPH The left atrium is one of four chambers in the heart and is located on the upper left-hand side. The lower chambers are known as ventricles. The right side of the heart is responsible for pumping blood to the lungs to collect oxygen in a process called[…]

image: iStock/fstop123 by Lydia Blanco February 27, 2018 Do you know what the No. 1 killer of black women is? Here’s a hint: it’s not cancer. Every year, 50,000 black women die from heart disease, according to the American Heart Association (AHA). Yes, you read that correctly. In 2014, the leading cause of death for black[…]

by Michelle Marsh | Monday, February 26th 2018  (http://komonews.com/features/sinclair-cares/learn-the-warning-signs-congenital-heart-defects-may-go-undetected Perhaps you’ve heard about babies born with holes in their hearts. Did you know that congenital heart defects can go undetected into adulthood? Take the case of Kelly and Mike DiMaggio. Mike DiMaggio had accepted being the caregiver for his wife, Kelly, long ago. She was[…]

Heart, Lung and Circulation (2018) 27, 276–279 1443-9506/04/$36.00 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2017.10.007 POSITION STATEMENT Update on the Diagnosis and Management of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy$ Christopher Semsarian, AM, MBBS, PhD, MPH, FAHMS, FRACP, FRCPA a,b*, on behalf of the CSANZ Genetics Council Writing Group *Agnes Ginges Centre for Molecular Cardiology, Centenary Institute and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia *Department of[…]

BY TOD PALMER tpalmer@kcstar.co January 25, 2018 04:06 PM Updated January 25, 2018 05:42 PM Kelly Manz’s passion for helping babies with congenital heart disease, or CHD, is taking her to the Super Bowl. Manz, a resident of Lee’s Summit, started a nonprofit called CHD Babies after her daughter, Chloe, was born with a heart defect in[…]

On Dec. 12, the Kansas Board of Education passed a mandate requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, to be taught in all Kansas high schools starting in the 2018-2019 school year. The course will be taught under the health and physical education curriculum and will be taught by staff at the schools. Students will learn basic[…]