February Is Heart Month

American Heart Month — February 2013

American Heart Month — February 2014

Announcement: American Heart Month — February 2017

Each February, the observance of American Heart Month helps raise awareness of ways to stay heart healthy and prevent heart disease. For 30 years, the number of deaths from heart disease, the number one killer of persons in the United States, declined. However, that progress has stalled in recent years, potentially because of high rates of obesity and hypertension, important risk factors for he...

February is National Children's Dental Health Month!

Heart failure awareness week: February 14-21.

The statistics pertaining to heart failure are awesome. It now affects 4.6 million Americans, and 400,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. After a diagnosis is made, less than 50% of patients survive more than five years, and less than 25% survive more than 10 years. Class IV heart failure carries about a 50% mortality in one year. Deaths from heart failure rose 120% from 1979 to 1996, and ho...