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Healthy Heart

Woman shows heart disease can hit the young, fit

6:37 AM, Feb 3, 2012

Friday is the day to wear your heart on your sleeve. It's National Wear Red Day, designed to bring awareness to heart disease, the number one killer of women.

Top Five Apps for a Healthy Heart

6:53 PM, Nov 8, 2011

Top rated health apps from exercise to medical advice, CPR and fitness

A healthy heart lesson from children

8:03 PM, Oct 11, 2011

Students at Martin Luther King Academy were among the 100 entries for the American Heart Association's Heartprize.

Healthy Heart: Which tests you should take

8:33 AM, Aug 10, 2011

A healthy person only needs their cholesterol checked every five years.

Mercy Health Partners hosts heart screenings

8:32 AM, Jun 24, 2011

There are three more screening scheduled this summer if you missed last night's event - July 27th and 28th and August 3rd.

Healthy Heart: Grayson's Heart

6:50 PM, Jun 14, 2011

Only a handful of children are born with the genetic condition where the arteries of the heart are malformed. One West Michigan baby was just hours old when he was diagnosed and it took a team from two hospitals to help save him.

Life-saving health screening held in Muskegon

10:21 PM, May 26, 2011

In a pilot program with Mercy Health Partners Hackley Hospital and Muskegon Heights High School, 60 high school athletes took part in a free heart exam Thursday evening to diagnose potential signs of sudden cardiac death.

Healthy Heart tests for athletes

1:06 PM, May 17, 2011

In the past seven years, 28 young athletes in Michigan have died from Sudden Cardiac Death. Now, one West Michigan hospital is going to make an effort to make sure this tragedy doesn't happen again.



Updated stent procedure safer for heart patients

6:19 PM, Mar 8, 2011

There are over 1-million heart stent procedures performed in the United States every year and that now routine procedure is becoming eve safer with new wrist procedure being done in West Michigan.

Defibrillator for life: Mike Roorda's heart story

2:16 PM, Feb 8, 2011

We've been following WZZM 13 Multi-Media Journalist Mike Roorda though a year long journey. In January of 2010, Mike learned that he may have a fatal heart condition called Burgada's Syndrome - also known as sudden cardiac death syndrome.

New research shows the heart can regenerate

3:29 PM, Dec 14, 2010

There may soon come a time when heart transplants are obsolete.  New research proves the heart can regenerate itself.

Heart condition could be fatal for WZZM multi-media journalist

8:38 PM, Nov 9, 2010

Learning that you might have a potentially fatal heart condition is bad enough but knowing you don't have the health insurance to cover the testing for it can be beyond frustrating.

Flu vaccine could help prevent heart attacks

11:10 AM, Oct 12, 2010

If you're searching for a reason to get a flu shot this year here's a good one - it may keep you from having a heart attack.

Mercy Health Partners involved in Allogliptin study

4:32 PM, Sep 14, 2010

In Michigan 66% of our population is considered overweight or obese and as a result cases of diabetes and heart disease continue to rise.

New form may help find heart conditions in young athletes

3:20 PM, Aug 10, 2010

The Kent and Ottawa Commission developed a new form based on 15 questions the American Heart Association says are important factors in determining heart disease.