When Should You Seek Medical Care?

Knowing when to seek medical care can save your life but how can you tell if your complaint is best ignored or worth a trip to the doctor? Googling your symptoms can amplify concerns rather than ameliorate them but often common complaints are not a cause for worry.

This series features leaders in their field who address six common medical complaints, including blood pressure, palpitations, snoring, trouble urinating, skin lesions, and neck lumps.

Learn the signs that should raise concern and when it’s ok to relax, kick back, and focus on everyone else’s problems!

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1 in Every 4 Deaths in the U.S. is Due to Heart Disease

8232Cardiovascular disease is the nation’s leading cause of death. People of all ages and backgrounds can get the condition. Fortunately, the last two decades have witnessed incredible advances in our understanding and treatment of heart disease. This new series will help you get current on developments in diagnoses, treatment and prevention with UC San Francisco cardiologists.

Learn more about the advances in preventive cardiology focusing on the role of genetics, diet, exercise, cholesterol, life style changes and integrative care.

Preventive Cardiology
Genetics for Preventive Cardiology

Get current on drug and device treatments as well cardiac transplantation. Find out about the latest advances in the treatment of patients with heart attacks as well as the remarkable advances in non-open chest repair of heart valves.

Replacing Heart Valves Without Open Cardiac Surgery
Rhythms Of The Heart

Discover the causes and treatment options for patients with cardiac rhythm abnormalities such as use of ablation for cure of common rhythm disturbances including Atrial Fibrillation.

Arterial Fibrillation for the Interested Layperson
Sudden Cardiac Death
Examining Heart Failure: How To Recognize And Treat The Weak Heart

Cardiovascular diseases claim more lives than all forms of cancer combined. Find out what everybody ought to know about this all too common disease.

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Get Your Move on Tip – Count on Your Cardiologist

TCOYD’s resident fitness expert Larry Verity has a tip to keep your diabetes in check and your body fit. Visit your cardiologist on a regular basis! It is important that you have routine check-ups. Our health does not remain static – it is continually changing. Because of this, checking in with your cardiologist (or any […]


TCOYD’s resident fitness expert Larry Verity has a tip to keep your diabetes in check and your body fit.

Visit your cardiologist on a regular basis! It is important that you have routine check-ups. Our health does not remain static – it is continually changing. Because of this, checking in with your cardiologist (or any physician for that matter) helps you keep ahead of the curve on possible health issues and helps to identify health issues and initiate treatment/management strategies. Either way, regular visits to the doctor are an important part of being a healthy diabetic!

TCOYD: Heart Disease Premieres September 23rd

People with diabetes have a higher risk for cardiovascular disease, but a proactive routine can make a difference. Joe Piscatella, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the link between lifestyle habits and health, joins Dr. Steven Edelman to discuss how to formulate a realistic plan of action, and provides user-friendly tips and mental strategies […]

People with diabetes have a higher risk for cardiovascular disease, but a proactive routine can make a difference. Joe Piscatella, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the link between lifestyle habits and health, joins Dr. Steven Edelman to discuss how to formulate a realistic plan of action, and provides user-friendly tips and mental strategies for success.

For the complete air schedule and to view this program online, click here.

Joe Piscatella is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the link between lifestyle habits and health, longevity and productivity. In his seminars, which have been called “a force for positive change” by TIME magazine, he teaches how to live a healthier, better-balanced life in our stressful modern society.

Joe knows the science of healthy living. More importantly, he understands the practical application of that science. His experience of undergoing coronary bypass surgery at age 32, and subsequently managing heart disease successfully for 32 years, gives him a practical perspective that audiences appreciate. He is one of the longest-lived survivors of cardiac bypass in the country.

President of the Institute for Fitness and Health, he lectures extensively to a variety of clients, including Fortune 1000 companies, professional associations and medical organizations. He consults on employee wellness to Boeing, Raytheon, Exxon, Sprint, the Federal Reserve Bank and the U.S. Naval War College. Over 2 million people have attended his seminars.

He is the author of eleven best-selling books including Don’t Eat Your Heart Out, Take A Load Off Your Heart and The Road to A Healthy Heart Runs Through the Kitchen. His newest book is Positive Mind, Healthy Heart.

Mr. Piscatella has hosted three PBS television specials. His latest, Take A Load Off Your Heart, is airing nationally. A PBS special on children’s health based on his book, Fat-Proof Your Child, is planned. He is a frequent guest on television and radio programs, including CNN, The Today Show, Fox News and Good Morning America.

Mr. Piscatella designs and manages corporate and community health initiatives. His 12-week community weight loss program in Holland, Michigan, resulted in 650 people losing 4200 pounds.

He is the only non-medical member of the National Institutes of Health Cardiac Rehabilitation Expert Panel charged with developing clinical practice guidelines for physicians, and is a national spokesperson on corporate wellness for the American Heart Association.