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What are Heart Murmurs?

Murmurs can be linked to a damaged or overworked heart valve. Mitral valve or aortic stenosis: Your mitral and aortic valves are on the left side o...

Heart Attack

A heart attack happens when something blocks the blood flow to your heart so it can’t get the oxygen it needs. Bypass surgery: You might have bypas...

Enlarged Heart (Cardiomegaly)

In some cases, it can help your doctor figure out what’s causing your enlarged heart. Most often, these treat high blood pressure, but they also im...

Heart Disease and Beta-Blocker Therapy

You shouldn't take beta-blockers if you have low blood pressure or a slow pulse, because bringing down your heart rate more can cause dizziness and...

Heart Disease and Antiplatelet Drugs

Antiplatelet drugs are a group of powerful medicines that prevent blood clots. People with bleeding problems, ulcers, or who are planning to have s...

How to Boost Your Metabolism with Exercise

Your next workout could set you up for a speedier metabolism. So the time you spend working out reaps benefits long after you stop sweating. You na...

Normal Blood Sugar Levels for Adults with Diabetes

Normally, your pancreas releases insulin when your blood sugar, or “blood glucose,” gets high -- after a meal, for example. Tight blood sugar contr...

Hypoglycemia: When Your Blood Sugar Gets Too Low

People with diabetes get hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) when their bodies don't have enough sugar to use as fuel. Insulin treatment can cause low b...

Cholesterol Testing and The Lipid Panel

This is especially true when you have low levels of “good” cholesterol, called high- density lipoprotein (HDL). The American Heart Association reco...

Understanding Cholesterol Numbers

The lower your LDL cholesterol number, the lower your risk. Statins are medicines that can help lower cholesterol levels. When it comes to HDL chol...

Why Do My Breasts Hurt?

Soreness, swelling, heaviness, shooting or burning pangs, tightness -- whatever the feeling, breast pain hurts. That pain, along with other breast ...

What is Pelvic Inflammatory Disease?

Some of these also can be signs of other serious medical conditions, like appendicitis or an ectopic pregnancy (a pregnancy that happens outside th...