Heart Sisters
399 FOLLOWERS
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
People who wear hearing aids wait, on average, 10 YEARS before getting help for age-related hearing loss. Here's why I didn't want to wait ..read more
Heart Sisters
1w ago
Several theories have emerged in medicine to explain surprising differences in patient outcomes based on whether our doctor is male or female ..read more
Heart Sisters
2w ago
"As crazy as this might seem, our research found that life's stressful turning points do not have to become major crises." ~ Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky ..read more
Heart Sisters
3w ago
Can we do a better job teaching medical and nursing students about women's unique cardiac issues? The answer might be in these nine teaching modules ..read more
Heart Sisters
1M ago
I think I may survive this dreadful bout of gastroenteritis - but I'm not sure yet ..read more
Heart Sisters
1M 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
Heart Sisters
1M 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
Heart Sisters
2M 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
Heart Sisters
2M 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
Heart Sisters
2M ago
Don't miss this Heart Month interview about women's heart health that I did with pharmacist/science communicator Lindsay Dixon ..read more