"At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiologist Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical wisdom of the day to begin conquering heart disease. By the middle of the 20th century, heart disease was killing millions and, as with the Black Death centuries before, physicians stood helpless. Visionaries, though, had begun to make strides earlier....

"The golden age of heart science is only just beginning. While heart disease has been around for a long time, the type of heart disease people have, why they have it, and how it's treated is changing. Yet the golden age of heart science is only just beginning. And with treatments of heart disease altering the very definitions of human life and death, there is no better time to look at the present and future of heart disease, the doctors and nurses...

It takes drive, persistence, and plenty of stamina to practice cardiology at the highest level. The competition for training fellowship spots is intense. Hundreds of applicants from all over the world compete to be accepted into the Cardiovascular Disease Training Fellowship at Johns Hopkins. Only nine are chosen each year. This is the story of one of those fellows. In Alpha Docs, Daniel Muñoz, M.D., recounts his transformation from wide-eyed...

Las enfermedades cardiovasculares son la principal causa de muerte en occidente. ¿Sabías que la mayoría de los riesgos dependen de ti? Aprende a prevenirlos y a distinguir lo que son desajustes naturales sin importancia del pulso cardíaco de las verdaderas señales de alarma. El doctor Brugada, considerado uno de los mejores cardiólogos del mundo y tambien un gran divulgador, hace accesible para todos el complejo campo de la salud del corazón. Cardiovascular...