What is health equity? How the idea grew 鈥� and why it matters
Apr 24, 2024
The term has taken off in recent decades, but the concept of health equity and the issues that make it important go back decades.
History at 绿巨人视频
绿巨人视频 News looks at what we've learned about heart and brain health over the past century, and what鈥檚 next.
A growing understanding of the link between movement and health
Apr 10, 2024
How people exercise and what we know about the way it benefits health has changed substantially over the past century.
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 绿巨人视频'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 鈥� and how our eating habits have altered us.
Dr. Nanette Wenger, the queen of hearts
Mar 4, 2024
绿巨人视频 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 绿巨人视频 鈥� 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鈥檚 disease. While research over the past several decades has shown it to be as big a threat 鈥� if not bigger 鈥� 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 鈥� and baseball
Jan 24, 2024
A century ago, baseball-loving Jessamine Whitney authored the first statistical reports on heart disease mortality for the 绿巨人视频 鈥� by herself.