American Heart Month: Be Heart Smart!
February is American Heart Month and Alex Vesa with Singing River Health System is joining us to talk about ways we can all be heart smart!
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Local woman shares story of overcoming heart failure
February is American Heart month, a time when people can focus on their personal cardiovascular health. Dr. Umair Malik is a physician who specializes in cardiology and heart…
Steps involved in hands-only CPR
According to the American Heart Association, about 90 percent of people who suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest die. Learning CPR can help save lives. Christen LeBoeuf, executive director for the Gulf Coast…
Memorial Hospital wearing red to raise awareness for heart disease
February is American Heart Month and today is National Wear Red Day. To show their support and raise awareness, Memorial Hospital employees and staff took part in…
Advice shifting on aspirin use for preventing heart attacks
By LINDSEY TANNER Older adults without heart disease shouldn’t take daily low-dose aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke, an influential health guidelines group said in preliminary updated advice released Tuesday. Bleeding risks for adults in their 60s…
Memorial Hospital holds group walk for heart health
Memorial Hospital is continuing its awareness campaign for American Heart Health Month through fun activities for its employees. This afternoon, Memorial Employees took time out of their busy schedules to take a group walk for exercise around…
American Heart Association’s ‘Go Red for Women Day’
Today is the American Heart Association’s ‘Go Red for Women Day.’ The day is designed to increase women’s heart health awareness and serve as a catalyst for change to improve the lives of women globally. Here in Mississippi, raising awareness…
Journeying back to heart health
One businessman known for his restaurants across South Mississippi and the Coast is sharing his story with others following recent quadruple bypass surgery. This past month has been a rollercoaster for one Mississippi businessman. Ron Savell is known across South…
Ochsner Medical Center-Hancock pushes for heart health
A labor of love, locally made, hand-knitted caps for newborns at Ochsner Medical Center-Hancock, a hospital in Bay St. Louis and it’s all part of a push to raise awareness when it comes to heart disease. Special deliveries happen often,…
Walking for healthy hearts in Long Beach
Even though Valentine’s Day has passed, February is still all about hearts. In observance of National American Heart Month, a group of forty people were keeping their hearts healthy by participating in a one mile heart walk in Long Beach…
American Heart Month
Now that Valentine’s Day is over, candy and chocolate hearts may be on sale, but your real heart will never be half the price. That’s why it’s very important to make sure it stays healthy. February is American Heart Month,…
Learning Lab on the World’s Smallest Heart Pump
It’s the smallest device of its kind in the world, but it has the biggest job you can imagine: saving a human heart. Just ask Assistant Fire Chief for Harrison County Steve Moore. Moore went into cardiac arrest after fighting…
National Wear Red Day
Today is the 15th National Wear Red Day, a day that brings awareness to heart disease especially in women. News 25’s Kendra Turley gives us a look at how people along the Coast raised awareness about the wide spread disease. In…
Heart Health Awareness
Todd Trenchard,the man who many refer to as “Mr. Jackson County” found himself in a hospital bed waiting for open heart surgery.