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How I stay healthy during the festive season

How I stay healthy during the festive season

While contemplating what I wanted to share with you this time of year, I was thinking about how our experience of the festive season seems to come in waves. First…

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10 Ways to Sneak In a Workout

10 Ways to Sneak In a Workout

In a perfect world, we'd all have at least an hour a day to devote to our fitness. But in the real world, 24 hours a day doesn't seem like…

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Depression Can Fuel Heart Disease in Midlife Women

Depression Can Fuel Heart Disease in Midlife Women

Women in midlife with a history of depression appear at markedly greater risk of suffering from heart disease, new research suggests.The finding seems to reinforce the well-known link between depression and heart troubles, but it doesn't prove…

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Icelandic gene discovery to help in fight against heart disease

Icelandic gene discovery to help in fight against heart disease

Photo: Iceland Monitor/Styrmir Kári A major discovery by Icelandic genomics company DeCode Genetics could lead to new ways of combating coronary artery disease. The DeCode team have discovered a rare…

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Her Heart, Your Heart, My Heart

Her Heart, Your Heart, My Heart

I have been encouraged by many to write a blog for some time and often wondered why anyone would be interested in what I had to say. After many years of nursing cardiac patients, teaching nursing, and then moving on to carrying out 15 years of research in Women and Heart Disease however, I realised I had much to offer women on this topic.

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