Aimee Whitfill

Mini strokes, also known as transient ischemic attacks or TIAs, may seem minor because they are over within minutes, but they are dangerous to ignore. In fact, 10 percent of people in whom mini strokes occur will suffer a major stroke within the next three months. Read on to find...

Health care costs have skyrocketed in recent years, even for those who have health insurance. Many conditions, such as osteoporosis, stroke, or peripheral artery disease can be devastating financially, because of their long-term effects. The cost savings of preventive health care are huge, and preventive screening for a variety of...

With the rising costs of health care and insurance, it only makes sense to try to keep your body in optimal health. Unfortunately, despite your best intentions, some very serious health issues can arise. Scarily, many of these can slowly damage your body or even kill you with little or...

As medical information becomes more available, based in part on the accessibility of the Internet, more and more people are becoming proactive when it comes to their mental and physical health issues. We know now the health skills for wellness and that we can control or influence many areas of...

When most of us think of wellness, we automatically think of physical health. We try to maintain a healthy body and hope that will ward off serious illness in the future. However, while physical health is crucial to good health, wellness has many dimensions beyond the physical. In fact, many...

Strokes affect about 900,000 people in the United States each year. Almost 90 percent of all strokes are caused by blockages in the arteries that carry oxygen-rich blood to the brain, leaving many people dead or disabled. Arterial blockage and stiffness is also a large contributor to aging-related cardiovascular diseases....

Stroke is the third leading cause of death each year in the United States, with about 700,000 victims annually. Unfortunately, more than half of all victims experience no prior symptoms, according to the American Stroke Association. For this reason, preventive screening can be crucial in maintaining optimal health, because the...

Think you might have carotid artery blockage or know someone who does? If you have carotid artery blockage, you face a significantly elevated risk of stroke. And, you would not be alone. Each year, about 900,000 people in the United States die of heart disease or stroke. In fact, the...

By now, many health-savvy folks are starting to hear more about the concept of preventive screening, but they may not have a complete mental picture of how these events work. When people first learn about preventive screening, many have only the vaguest idea in their heads about what a screening...

The state of your health can be a deceptive affair. Many of the most serious health problems for which you may be at highest risk - such as stroke, heart disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm, peripheral artery disease and osteoporosis - often show no symptoms until it is too late. Facing...