November 11th, 2010
Heart Failure: A Scary Name That Doesn’t Make Sense
Mary Knudson, Health Journalist
Well-known science journalist Mary Knudson is the author of HeartSense, a blog about heart failure, from which the following post is taken. In this post, she questions the aptness of the designation “heart failure.” For the last week, I have been mulling over the term heart failure, questioning how the collective conditions that bear this label ever got such a name, […]
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