Articles tagged with 'American Heart Month' | Intermountain Health

American Heart Month is designed to bring awareness to many factors surrounding heart disease, such as risk factors, symptoms, complications and new treatment options and tools. Mostly, it’s designed to encourage people to make heart health a …

Ten years ago, Laboyd Spradley found out he had a heart arrhythmia, but at the time didn’t do anything about it. He was healthy and felt great, and didn’t see any reason to be alarmed. On December 23, 2021, Laboyd went in for a routine checkup …

At his wife’s urging, during his annual physical in April 2021, Stan Foxx told his primary care physician, Dr. John Hornsby, that he occasionally experienced pain in his upper right quadrant while walking up inclines on his daily walks. Dr. Hornsby …

One hot summer night in August of 2021 in Grand Junction, Teyen Shiao, MD, was awoken in the middle of the night with pressure in his chest. At only 48-years-old and with no risk factors, the Grand Valley general surgeon assumed he was experiencing …

Olga Firstbrook, a 64-year-old nurse, has worked in all areas of healthcare, including pediatrics, cardiac care, ICU, oncology and various management positions. She’s spent decades taking care of patients, which came naturally to her. However, when …

Life changed in an instant for Robert Mwangi in 2015, when he died at the age of 37. He had spent the day helping a friend move and when they were finished, they drove separately to the new house, his friend in the moving truck and Robert …