Heart health

Preeclampsia can have a lasting impact

Clinicians hope to raise awareness around preeclampsia and the health impact it can have later on in a woman's life

Monitoring your heart from far, far away

A service at Sunnybrook allows heart specialists to keep tabs on implantable medical devices like pacemakers and defibrillators – no physical clinic...

Meet Dr. Harindra Wijeysundera, the interventional cardiologist

As an interventional cardiologist, he diagnoses and treats structural heart diseases using novel devices small enough to fit inside a heart valve.

Heart patients urge others to seek care

Battling heart disease, Mary Mandel urges others to keep their hospital medical appointments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Remote device monitoring: how can it help?

If you are a patient who has certain implantable medical devices, like pacemakers and defibrillators, remote device monitoring could benefit you. Dr...

Tips for eating veggies on a budget

Vegetable prices at Canadian supermarkets are soaring -- but you can still include them in your diet. Tips for buying veggies on a budget.

I’m on the waitlist for TAVI. Now what?

Six tips to help you maintain your heart while you are waiting for your transcatheter aortic valve implantation, and when you should seek help.

Advances in heart valve replacement technology are providing new hope for critically ill patients

For many with valve disorders, the options are let your malfunctioning heart continue to deteriorate or face high-risk surgery. That's changing.

Michelle went from an investment banker, to inventing a device that could save lives

Former investment banking analyst Michelle Jennett switched careers to pursue her passion for medicine. Now, she’s developing RescuBeat, a...

New cardiac ablation technique reduces radiation

Sunnybrook has adopted a new way of doing ablations using a 3D mapping system, which uses sensors, not X-rays, to provide highly detailed models of...