To continue with the heart theme brought to the table by yesterday’s post, I would like to give you some more heart information. Maryland barbershops can now take a course at the University of Maryland entitled “Hair, Heart and Health.” The class, meant to turn barbers into medical consultants, teaches basic techniques to measure blood [...]

The American Heart Association has recently changed its guidelines for resuscitation following this year’s research. The new guidelines come two years before a scheduled revision by the American Heart Association and state that “hand only” resuscitation can be just as effective as traditional mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The hand only resuscitation method uses 100 compressions to the [...]

What would it feel like to live forever? Not constantly growing older, instead living forever as a young adult of twenty or thirty. While it seems like nothing but a dream, many are convinced that immortality is just around the corner of medical science and technology. Scott Wainner is one of these living forever advocates. [...]