The Reading Room: Patient Experience Guides

Deliberate heat has joined the recovery toolkit. Regular sauna users describe the adaptation curve, the sleep effect, infrared ...

Cuffless blood pressure wearables are shipping. Early users describe what continuous trends reveal, what the calibration small ...

Wearable ECGs have moved AFib detection onto the wrist. Here is what people report about the alert, the cardiology workup, and ...

A guide to our Heart & Cardiovascular shelf — fifteen anthologies of first-person testimony, from heart attack survival to ...

July 1, 2026 The Watchman Implant, Explained

What the Watchman implant is, how it lowers stroke risk in atrial fibrillation without long-term blood thinners, who it is for,...

An honest look at varicose veins: when they are more than cosmetic, the simple measures that ease them, and how modern minimall...

June 27, 2026 High Cholesterol by the Numbers

High cholesterol in data: how common it is, why it is usually silent, and why a simple blood test matters.

High blood pressure in data: how over a billion adults are affected, how many are unaware, and how few have it controlled.

The world's leading cause of death in numbers: the scale of cardiovascular disease and how much of it is preventable.

A way to replace a failing heart valve without open-heart surgery, threading a new valve up through an artery. What TAVR is, wh...

Statins are among the most prescribed and most argued-about medicines there are. What high cholesterol means, what statins do, ...

A small device that keeps the heart beating steadily, and that most people forget is there. What a pacemaker does, what getting...