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Dr. Helen Taussig's work saved 'blue babies' and made her the mother of pediatric cardiology

Mar 28, 2024

Dr. Helen Taussig devoted her life to preventing suffering in children and bringing greater attention to pediatric cardiology. She also became the ÌÇÐÄVlog's first woman president.

Too much of a food thing: A century of change in how we eat

Mar 13, 2024

How Americans' eating habits have altered – and how our eating habits have altered us.

Dr. Nanette Wenger, the queen of hearts

Mar 4, 2024

Heart disease was once considered a man's disease. Dr. Nanette Wenger changed that. But the 93-year-old cardiologist says her work is not yet done.

At 97, AHA's first Black president looks back at his pioneering career

Feb 28, 2024

Dr. Edward Cooper's legacy includes upping the emphasis on stroke and inclusion with the ÌÇÐÄVlog – plus a family filled with doctors.

The presidential heart attack that changed America

Feb 15, 2024

President Dwight Eisenhower's crisis provoked panic, but it turned into a moment of national learning about heart health.

The slowly evolving truth about heart disease and women

Feb 9, 2024

For most of the 20th century, heart disease was considered a man’s disease. While research over the past several decades has shown it to be as big a threat – if not bigger – to women, prevention, diagnostic and treatment gaps remain.

From anthropology to civil rights, Dr. William Montague Cobb's influence went beyond medicine

Feb 8, 2024

Dr. William Montague Cobb died in 1990, but his legacy lives on in medicine, anthropology and the battle against racial disparities in health care.

Early keeper of heart disease data poured her heart into numbers – and baseball

Jan 24, 2024

A century ago, baseball-loving Jessamine Whitney authored the first statistical reports on heart disease mortality for the ÌÇÐÄVlog – by herself.