Do you know which organ is the body’s strongest? How about which muscle does the most work over the course of a lifetime? If you guessed the heart, you are correct. Tipping the scale at a mere 11 ounces (on average), this little muscle has got some serious work cut out for itself. Typically, a [...]

An Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator or ICD is a device that can protect people with heart rhythm disorders associated with a weak heart. An ICD not only functions as a typical pacemaker, which stimulates the heart to contract when it is beating too slow, but can also deliver an intense shock to reset the heart’s rhythm if [...]

Just to give you your daily dose of wow, these five facts about the heart might shed a little more light on just how amazing your heart truly is. On average the heart will beat 2.5 billion times in a lifetime! You’re more likely to have a heart attack on Monday morning than at any [...]