American Heart Day 2024. Since 2004, the american heart association’s signature women's initiative, go red for women, has addressed the awareness and clinical care gaps of women’s greatest health threat, cardiovascular disease (cvd). It serves as a reminder to prioritize.
The purple heart is the oldest military award in america. 8, 2024 — from humble beginnings as a small professional health society formed by six cardiologists in chicago in 1924, the american heart association has emerged as the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke.