Considering herself a healthy and fit 54-year-old woman, Marty Parker had no history of heart disease or hypertension. She even worked out at the gym several times each week.
Deborah Westbrook and her husband had been steadily working to remodel their Pangburn home when she began having pain in her shoulder.
When she’s not enjoying herself on the dance floor or the golf course, active 69-year-old Dorris Fothergil is busy working in her hair salon.
Arkansas’ largest ambulance service has doubled the percentage of patients it revives from cardiac arrest since altering its treatment protocol in November. Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services (MEMS) of Little Rock said that performing uninterrupted CPR on the scene has returned cardiac activity to almost 33 percent of patients. That figure hovered around 15 percent before the new guidelines took effect Nov. 23.
Having a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease is difficult. Not only is it hard on the one struggling through the progressive disease, but it’s a constant worry for the caregiver that is responsible for them. As a caregiver it is very important to make time to take care for yourself, and to know when to ask for help from others when you need to or are simply feeling overwhelmed.
Baptist Health is already the most-preferred health-care system in central Arkansas for delivering a baby by a three-to-one margin over other hospitals, which is why Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock led the state with 3,499 babies born in 2014.
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