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More heart surgeries can be performed with minimally invasive techniques.

Avid golfer Jim Thacker returns to course after advanced heart procedure at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids

Racing shoes and racing heart - changing course toward recovery Mike Newhouse reached his goal of running 100 consecutive days in a row after a heart ablation procedure. (Photo by Mercy Medical Center) / Sponsored by Mercy Heart Center The metaphor “my heart skips a beat” usually refers to shock, but for atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients, it’s a literal occurrence. AFib is a type of heart arrhythmia that affects more than three million people in the U.S; it’s a problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat that causes the heart to beat quickly or irregularly. As an avi...

My last column touched a nerve with some readers, one of whom denounced me as a “ … woke, bitter little man.” Bitter, OK, I do have teenagers at home, but wielding the word “woke” as a cudgel reveals more about the author than it does about me. More Headlines

As an ICU nurse at a Columbus, Wisconsin hospital, Morgan Saxe regularly cares for critically ill patients. But, at 39 years old and in seemingly good health, she never imagined she would be on the receiving end of that type of care - especially hundreds of miles from home.