A patient-friendly guide to pacemaker recovery — caring for your incision, safe arm movement, driving and work, follow-up visits, remote monitoring, and when to call your doctor.
After a heart attack, secondary prevention is what lowers the risk of the next one. A cardiologist's guide to LDL targets, antiplatelet therapy, beta blockers, cardiac rehab, exercise, diet, smoking, blood pressure, and the numbers worth tracking.
A cardiologist's plain-language guide to vasovagal syncope—why people faint, the warning signs, what to do in the moment, counter-pressure maneuvers, tilt-table testing, and when fainting is a red flag.
A cardiologist's guide to statins: the side effects that are genuinely real (and how common they are), plus 11 common myths separated from the evidence on muscle pain, liver, memory, diabetes, and more.
A clear, patient-friendly guide to the coronary artery calcium (CAC) score: what it measures, what the numbers mean, who should consider the test, and how it guides heart-disease prevention under the 2026 ACC/AHA dyslipidemia guideline.