Understanding Heart Failure - Treating Heart Failure - Living with Heart Failure. Learn more with these three helpful videos from HealthiNation. … [Read more...]
HealthGrades: Common Causes of Heart Failure
Heart failure means your heart isn't pumping as well as it should. It's getting weaker. Your heart has trouble supplying the rest of your body with the oxygen it needs. Heart failure comes on gradually. What causes congestive heart failure and are … [Read more...]
Our Co-Founders’ Survivor Story – The Original HeartBrothers
*Original story on the Tufts Medical Center website - 09/08/2015.* To say Pat Sullivan and Bob Romer are bonded for life would be an understatement. Recent heart transplant recipients at Tufts MC’s Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Center, … [Read more...]
Warning Signs of Heart Failure
Do you know the warning signs of heart failure? If you experience more than one of the following symptoms, you should be evaluated. … [Read more...]
Heart of the Deal Game Night
Our 1st Heart of the Deal Game Night was great fun for all - and successful in laying the groundwork for us to hold future Game Nights in 2018 and beyond. We had more than 100 attendees - including all four Heart Failure (HF) centers in Boston. We … [Read more...]
HeartBrother Larry Williams: ‘The Governor’ Goes Home
Heart transplant patient who counseled others finally going home Produced By: WCVB-5 (ABC) Boston *Click Image To Watch Video BOSTON — SEP 6, 2017 — There will be a lot of bittersweet tears Thursday at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, where … [Read more...]
Heart Disease Quiz
Test your medical IQ! Thanks to the folks at Medicine.Net who created this great quiz and important heart health facts. See how many you can answer correctly... Q1: In the US, 1 in every ___ deaths is caused by heart disease. A: 4 Explanation: … [Read more...]
Heart Failure: The Real Monthly Costs
The Real Monthly Costs of Heart Failure Six people reveal how much they spend to treat their heart failure, and offer tested money-saving tips. Written By: Kathleen Doheny Medically Reviewed By: Michael Cutler, DO, PhD Original Article … [Read more...]
Bill Chenier’s Survivor Story
Bill Chenier Retired Chef Diagnosis (Age): 4th Grade (Heart Murmur) Transplant: August 1, 2011 After a heart and kidney transplant saved Bill Chenier’s life nearly two years after he lost his youngest son, Scott, to the same congenital heart … [Read more...]
Shoji Inomata’s Survivor Story
Shoji’s Heart (Original article written by Jacqueline Mitchell | November 19, 2013) When this Tufts dental student learned he needed a transplant, his world changed—but his determination to stay in school did not. Shoji Inomata, D15, didn’t … [Read more...]