Healing Stories Network

The Reading Room

Honest, first-person companions to the conditions, treatments, and choices explored across our library.

It usually has no symptoms, yet it quietly raises serious risks. What high blood pressure is, why it earns the name silent, and...

Surviving a heart attack is the beginning, not the end, of the story. What recovery is really like, in body and mind, and what ...

A frightening name for a manageable condition. What heart failure really means, why it does not mean the heart is about to stop...

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