Heart Sisters
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Myheartsisters Community raises awareness about Pregnancy Induced Heart Failure - Peripartum Cardiomyopathy/ Postpartum Cardiomyopathy, through information and story telling. Knowing the signs of heart failure in pregnancy, saves lives.
Heart Sisters
3d ago
Résumé virtues are what you do: the workplace skills you'd talk about when job-hunting. But eulogy virtues are who you are: what people will say about you at your funeral ..read more
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1w ago
Here's my take on what can happen when academics, journal editors, and medical conference organizers tell us they welcome patient partners ..read more
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2w ago
How I realized that I'd not yet become habituated to new arthritis pain in the way I'd already become habituated to my longstanding cardiac pain ..read more
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3w ago
The more heart patients learn about heart disease, the better we can manage the 8,765 hours per year we aren't spending with our cardiologist. Here's how 'Cardiac College for Women' can help us manage those hours ..read more
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1M ago
Don't miss this Heart Month interview about women's heart health that I did with pharmacist/science communicator Lindsay Dixon ..read more
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1M ago
"The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning" suggests that if we don't sort out our possessions now, we're condemning our families to do the job for us later ..read more
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1M ago
Dr. Sian Harding's book "The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart" is such a good read that it now lives beside my favourite chair where it's handy for re-reading random chapters... Here's why ..read more
Heart Sisters
2M ago
If you live with heart disease, it's important to know the surprising effects of COLD TEMPERATURES on your heart health ..read more
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2M ago
"We all want the words we use publicly to be heard, understood and maybe even remembered..."~ Carrie Fox :3 ways my public speaking skills evolved after my heart attack ..read more
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2M ago
Having severe symptoms dismissed by the doctors we turn to for help can feel as crushing as the physical suffering itself, says science writer Ed Yong - who believes that journalists can "clarify the unfathomable for people too sick to do it themselves."  ..read more