Heart Alert Teams Celebrate Success With Their Patients
A groundbreaking program, in place since 2005 at each of the Baptist Health System hospitals, is saving precious time in diagnosing and treating patients suffering a heart attack. Baptist Health System...
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Your Aging Heart: What's Happening?
by Krisha McCoy, MS Have you ever wondered why some older people can run marathons, while others have a hard time getting up out of a chair? Much of this inconsistency has to do with the way the heart...
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Heart Alert at Baptist Health System
A groundbreaking program, in place at each of the Baptist Health System hospitals, is saving precious time in diagnosing and treating patients suffering a heart attack. Baptist Health System is the...
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We're Passionate About Your Heart, and Your Brain
Who loves your heart and brain as much as you do? The clinical teams at the five Baptist hospitals. That is why our cardiac and stroke teams have worked so hard to achieve the highest standards in...
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Busting the Myths of "Very Gross" Veins
By Robert K. Thompson, M.D. Everyone seems to know the reason, whether it be fact or fiction, for their varicose veins: "I cross my legs a lot" (fiction); "I spend my day walking on concrete floors"...
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Women with Heart
Diane Greiner, M.D Cardiologists Meet Two Cardiologists who share a passion for prevention and treatment of heart disease. Diane Greiner, M.D. and Laura Jacobs M.D. are cardiologists with the Heart...
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Heart of the Matter
When someone has a heart attack in the movies or on TV, it's often quite dramatic, with no signs or symptoms that something is about to happen. But in the real world, paying attention to our bodies...
View ArticleGet a vascular screening today!
Strokes, leg pain and aneurysms? If you are over 45,you may be at risk of vascular disease. Vascular disease is a disease of the arteries and veins that blocks circulation in the body. It can be life...
View ArticleWalk for Your Heart
Baptist Health System is once again the major local sponsor of the American Heart Association's annual Heart Walk set for Saturday, Nov. 3 at Brackenridge Park, and fundraising activities have begun...
View ArticleFighting Diabetes through a Vascular Bypass
Diabetes is rampant in South Texas. The disease can lead to blocked vessels causing leg pain and sometimes amputation. The expert physicians at at Baptist Health System are making a difference in their...
View ArticleFree Heart Screenings for Teens
BASIC INFORMATION AugustHeart screens students, ages 14-18 , for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) . Generally, one screening after age 15 is sufficient, unless cardiac symptoms are present. HCM is...
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We're Passionate About Your Heart, and Your Brain
Who loves your heart and brain as much as you do? The clinical teams at the five Baptist hospitals. That is why our cardiac and stroke teams have worked so hard to achieve the highest standards in...
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Busting the Myths of "Very Gross" Veins
By Robert K. Thompson, M.D. Everyone seems to know the reason, whether it be fact or fiction, for their varicose veins: "I cross my legs a lot" (fiction); "I spend my day walking on concrete floors"...
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Your Aging Heart: What's Happening?
by Krisha McCoy, MS Have you ever wondered why some older people can run marathons, while others have a hard time getting up out of a chair? Much of this inconsistency has to do with the way the heart...
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Heart Alert at Baptist Health System
A groundbreaking program, in place at each of the Baptist Health System hospitals, is saving precious time in diagnosing and treating patients suffering a heart attack. Baptist Health System is the...
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