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Helping Student Athletes Avoid Vaping

SHAPE America

After Max got addicted to vaping, he dropped focus on baseball and got suspended from school. A review of published literature focusing on the effects vaping on athletes noted that routine e-cigarette use may have an impact on cardiovascular and pulmonary systems. Defend against youth vaping. Study the film.

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Works of Heart

Stanford Childrens

The Ayes wanted expert advice so they began researching their son’s heart condition in earnest. To obtain detailed information on Orion’s condition, the cardiac imaging team conducted non-invasive MRI scans that provided a three-dimensional image of his moving heart as well as the blood flowing through it. And so do our patients.

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Boy Tames His Single Ventricle Condition With His Lion Heart

Stanford Childrens

This year, he got a backpack and school supplies from the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Child Life team. Born with a complex heart condition During Heather’s pregnancy, a fetal echocardiogram revealed that Judah had a serious congenital heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). “He thinks it’s grand.

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Can You Use CrossFit In Physical Education Classes?

Physical Education Update

And in at least one high school, it has been extremely successful. The video above shows an example of how Crossfit concepts can be used in a high school physical education setting, as a program for students who want to work harder than in their traditional PE classes.

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Healing with Heart: Monica Patino’s Mission in Support of Latinx Families

Stanford Childrens

A nurse at Stanford Children’s makes a lasting impact in the Latinx community, caring for children with serious heart conditions both within the hospital and abroad. She’d wanted to be a nurse from the time she was growing up in Colombia and had the chance to shadow a nurse at a hospital when she was in middle school.

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Recent Study Indicates Delta-Tocotrienols Support Antioxidative Status and a Healthy Inflammatory Response

Designs for Health

Delta-tocotrienol is a form of vitamin E that has been shown in research to possess unique properties that support antioxidative status , blood sugar and lipid metabolism, cardiovascular health, and a healthy inflammatory response. This condition has been associated with oxidative stress and an inflammatory response. .

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Girl Faces Open-Heart Surgery With Strength, Humor, and Grace

Stanford Childrens

Los Gatos family has nothing but gratitude for daughter’s heart care at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health On the day Julian Baring heard the news that his 8-year-old daughter, Elodie, had a rare and serious heart condition, he was an ocean away for work. A week later, she was back at school. His life came to a screeching stop.

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