We are all looking for ways to connect with our patients. The health history form is the starting point to building a lasting relationship with your patients. A new patient expects to fill out a ...

Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is the most common genetic heart disease, affecting about 1 in every 500 people, according to the American Heart Association (AHA). In people with HOCM, ...

For many observers, the term “genomic medicine” conjures up space-age images of microarray chips, bioinformatics, and designer drugs. Today, with medicine poised at the dawn of the genomic era, it is ...

Ashley Dedmon’s parents always told her knowledge is power. Discussions about health, she says, were the norm growing up. “They were educators,” Dedmon says of her parents. “They were always wanting ...

I’ve always known that my family has a history of heart-related health problems. My maternal grandmother had high blood pressure, as do other relatives on my mom’s side. Some also have heart rhythm ...

Most common chronic diseases are the result of complex interactions between multiple genetic variants and environmental factors. Despite significant advances in the last decade in the understanding of ...

Your family’s medical history is one of the most important indicators of your future health and is valuable information for your doctor. Thanksgiving is National Family History day and is a great time ...

In the first of two articles on assessing an employee’s fitness to work as part of a management referral, Anne Harriss and Dr Sue Smith offer advice on taking a health history. History taking is a ...

Collection of family cancer histories (FCHs) can identify individuals at risk for familial cancer syndromes. The aim of this study is to evaluate the literature on existing strategies whereby ...

Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women in the United States today. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that heart disease causes about 1 in 4 deaths in the ...