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How Cancer Treatment Can Affect Fertility | Health Channel 

How Cancer Treatment Can Affect Fertility | Health Channel

Some cancer treatments affect fertility: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, hormone therapy, and targeted therapy, explains Dr. Victor Guardiola, Medical Oncologist with Miami Cancer Institute.  In general, types of cancer treatment that can affect infertility are surgery and chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is a medication given usually through the vein into the whole system. Intense treatment for radiation is…...
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Can Menopause Cause Heart Disease? | Living Minutes

Can Menopause Cause Heart Disease?

Menopause causes certain hormones in women to decrease and that can lead to an increased risk for heart disease...
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African Americans and Heart Health _ Living Minutes

African Americans and Heart Health

Diabetes can make controlling heart disease among African Americans more difficult but it’s the social and economic inequities that form the biggest barriers to decreasing deaths from the disease...
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Most Common Risk Factors of Cardiac Arrest | Living Minute

Most Common Risk Factors of Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac arrest can happen to someone with no heart problems but there are some other risk factors you should be aware of...
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Fighting Heart Health Inequities in People of Color | Living Minute

Fighting Heart Health Inequities in People of Color

The American Heart Association is working to combat health inequities in several ways...
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How to Use a Defibrillator | Living Minute

How to Use a Defibrillator

Shocking someone with a defibrillator can sound scary but all of them come with step-by-step directions that will guide you through the procedure...
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Should You Rest and Take it Easy if You Have Heart Disease? | Health Channel 

Should You Rest and Take it Easy if You Have Heart Disease?

Do you really know about heart disease? Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, causing about 1 in 4 deaths. The term “heart disease” refers to several types of heart conditions. In the United States, the most common type of heart disease is coronary artery disease (CAD), which can lead…...
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Heart Disease Diagnosis Explained | Health Channel

Heart Disease Diagnosis Explained | Health Channel

There are many tests and procedures for diagnosing heart diseases, which can be confusing for patients. In an interview with the Health Channel, Dr. Harry Aldrich, Medical Director at Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, helps clear things up.  Dr. Aldrich says that the first examination doctors typically do with their patients is a review of…...
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