It was the first day of Heart Month, a few weeks ago, when I was home on a Thursday night and decided to watch television. Grey’s Anatomy, in particular, was creating a buzz; I hadn’t watched in a while, but friends and colleagues insisted I had to watch tonight. As I...
We met with WomenHeart Champion, Dawn Manogue and her 17-year-old daughter Lily at the Burlington Stores heart screening in Hartford, Connecticut to discuss how advocacy has shaped this mother-daughter relationship. One of the pair’s earliest campaigns was...
As I participated in a roundtable discussion on Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) at the American College of Cardiology conference in Orlando two weeks ago, I thought to myself how extraordinary it is that we still know so little about the condition, particularly in...
You know all those headlines that read, “How could a healthy, 40-something have a heart attack?” What they don’t seem to understand, is that heart disease does not discriminate. People of all ages, genders, and socioeconomic backgrounds get heart disease. Nearly 1 in...
The perfect blend of fierce and fearless, 47-year old Pamela Thomas knows the importance of support to help women with heart disease thrive. A woman of strength, Pamela’s a proud heart survivor, advocate, and creator of the Facebook Blog Project Heart Talk, which...
At 26 years old, Georgia Leventis-Molina was settling into life as a newlywed, focusing her time on her son, Zariah (now official by marriage), school, and her job in the hospitality business. But when she injured her back at work, she found herself caught in a...
