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Takeaways from AP report on perils of heatstroke for runners in a warming world
As climate change reshapes the way humans live outdoors, it's affecting the way they play, too. That includes runners, who may find themselves in harm's way on a warming planet. They pursue a sport that esteems grit and suffering in pursuit of improvement. Experts told The Associated...
Heart disease is rampant in parts of the rural South. Researchers are hitting the road to learn why
Darrell Dixon’s father was just 25 when he had a major heart attack in the rural Mississippi Delta. By his early 40s, a series of additional attacks had left his heart muscle too weak to pump enough blood to his body. He died in 2013 at the age of 49. “It was a big jolt for our...
Drugs to treat diabetes, heart disease and blood cancers among those affected by price negotiations
The Biden administration says Medicare recipients will save about $1.5 billion on out-of-pocket costs for medications to treat diabetes, heart disease, types of arthritis and other ailments under new prices negotiated with drug companies that will take effect in 2026. The savings...
Bills co-owner Kim Pegula helps break team huddle in latest sign of her recovery from cardiac arrest
PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills co-owner Kim Pegula showed significant signs in her recovery from a debilitating cardiac arrest by being escorted to the field by her husband to help break the post-practice team huddle on Friday. Though her steps were somewhat tentative, this...
New Ohio law mandates defibrillators in schools, sports venues after 2023 collapse of Bills’ Hamlin
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new Ohio law will require automatic external defibrillators, or AEDs, to be placed in nearly every school or sports and recreation venue in the state, a change prompted by the sudden cardiac arrest of Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin during a Monday Night Football game in...
How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart.
As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what's happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. The critical danger point outdoors for illness and death from relentless heat is several degrees lower than experts once thought, say...
Plastic surgeon charged in death of wife who went into cardiac arrest while he worked on her
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A plastic surgeon in the Florida Panhandle was charged with his wife's death after she suffered a cardiac arrest and died days after he performed after-hours procedures on her in his clinic last year, authorities said. Benjamin Brown was arrested Monday on a...
