Feature Channels: Valentine's Day

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Karl Pillemer, a gerontologist in Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology, has spent the last three years surveying over 800 older people about love, relationships and marriage. Many respondents had been married 30 or more years – including some who tied the knot 60 or 70 years ago. They shared some secrets – just in time for Valentine’s Day – for keeping the spark alive in a love relationship.

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Getting struck by Cupid's arrow may very well take your breath away and make your heart go pitter-patter this Valentine's Day, reports sexual wellness specialists at Loyola University Health System.

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The most common thing that couples want from each other during a blowup is not a mea culpa but rather the willingness to bend a little and give up some power, according to a Baylor University study.

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Mount Holyoke alumna Esther Howland (1847) created the first American Valentine's Day card, launching what is today a multi-billion-dollar industry.

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As Valentine’s Day approaches we start to think about “The One.” It causes us to evaluate the people in our lives and our relationships. And one of the most intimate and crucial relationships we have is with our physician. Finding the right doctor is a lot like finding the right relationship partner. This Valentine’s Day maybe it’s also a good time to ponder finding “Dr. Right.”

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Celebrate February by eating heart shaped fruits and vegetables, which, by fortunate coincidence, are good for your cardiovascular system, a Saint Louis University dietitian says.

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Detailed prediction models that project long-term patient mortality following PCI and CABG surgery can be useful for the heart team when determining the best treatment strategy for individual patients

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Heart transplantation continues to be the “gold standard” treatment for end-stage heart failure, and a large number of patients now live 20 years or more after surgery

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February is American Heart Month. “Top 10 Things Women Need to Do to Protect their Hearts,” from cardiovascular disease by leading female cardiovascular experts of Mount Sinai Heart at The Mount Sinai Hospital.

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Rather than Valentine’s Day treats from a romantic partner, many teens face a serious threat of violence in their dating relationships. Every year, nearly 1.5 million high school students nationwide experience physical abuse from a dating partner, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Psychologists who work with teens, parents and communities can explain how and why teen dating violence occurs, the signs to look for and ways to prevent it. The following American Psychological Association members are available to discuss teen dating violence:

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A new device tested first at the University of Michigan may provide a minimally invasive option for the elderly who are facing life-threatening thoracic aneurysms.

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A multi-center team led by James Langabeer II, Ph.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has published a first-of-its-kind study in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) that examines unequal growth in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) centers relative to population and heart attack prevalence across the United States.

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For the first time, a UCLA team has used a technique normally employed in treating brain aneurysms to treat severe, life-threatening irregular heart rhythms in two patients.

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• Dialysis patients using catheters to access the blood have the highest risks for death, infections, and cardiovascular events compared with patients using other types of vascular access. • Higher quality studies are needed to determine the true safety of different types of vascular access used for hemodialysis. Worldwide, more than 1.5 million people are treated with hemodialysis.

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Affectionate behavior may not be all that it seems, according to a new study by relational communication expert Sean Horan, an assistant professor at DePaul University, and co-author Melanie Booth-Butterfield, a professor at West Virginia University.