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In the News: Dr. Turco on WTOP
Dr. Turco discusses the findings and talks about how quitting can reduce a person's risk for heart and other health related problems. In addition, the U.S. Surgeon General formally released the new report, "How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease" at the National Press Club. Dr. Turco was asked by the American Heart Association to attend as their expert on Cardiovascular Disease and tobacco. Click above to listen to the audio from the WTOP interview.
Stress really CAN cause heart attacks, say researchers!
How to Train the Aging Brain
A Race in Cardiology
To Inspect the Heart, Some Doctors Now Start at the Wrist
Excerpts from: THE ANGINA MONOLOGUES
Global Warming and Your Heart?
Lessons of Heart Disease, Learned and Ignored
A Lifesaving Jolt
Five Years Later, a Toast to Life
Dr. Mark Turco, Director of the Center for Cardiac and Vascular Research at Washington Adventist Hospital, was interviewed recently on WTOP radio (103.5, 103.9, and 107.7 FM) about the newest surgeon general's report that says even a bit of social smoking, or inhaling secondhand smoke, could be enough to block your arteries and trigger a heart attack.
A major trial by doctors at University College London has proved for the first time that people who get stressed are also likely to have heart disease.
18 January 2010
www.dailymail.co.uk
By BARBARA STRAUCH
Can an old brain learn??? Enjoy this article!
By BARRY MEIER
Two major companies are racing to develop the potentially next big thing in heart surgery: a replacement valve that can be implanted through thin tubes known as catheters.
By Sandra G. Boodman
A Cardiac Surgeon's Perspective on Heart Disease in Women
By Kathy E. Magliato, MD. MBA, FACS
These excerpts are from a presentation given at the MHI convention.
Global warming could mean more heart problems, doctors warn. This Associated Press article was published in the International Herald Tribune.
By GINA KOLATA
Published: April 8, 2007
The toll from the nation's No. 1 killer could be reduced if the medical system delivered care that is known to make a difference.
This article appeared in the 2006 Fall issue of the Washington Adventist "Health Advisor".
By John Kelly of the Washington Post
This article was featured in the Health section of the Washington Post on Monday July 17,2006.
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