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Raise awareness, wear red Feb. 3 Women’s Heart Care at the MUSC Heart and Vascular Center is teaming with the American Heart Association to raise awareness about women and heart disease.   As part of its sponsorship of the American Heart Association’s Go Red campaign, MUSC is asking employees and staff to wear red on Feb. 3.   Most women don’t know that heart disease is the number one killer of women, age 25 and older. MUSC physicians Marian Taylor, M.D., and Pamela Morris, M.D., who are heading up the hospitals’ heart care initiative, hope to change that by educating more women about the risks of heart disease. A good place to start, they said, is wearing a red dress or other red clothes on Feb. 3.   You can also help by making a voluntary donation to the American Heart Association on behalf of MUSC. Mention that you are an MUSC employee and the hospital will get credit toward its Heart Walk fund-raising goal. Donations can be mailed to: American Heart Association, 409 King St., Suite 300, Charleston, S.C. 29403.     Friday, Jan. 27, 2006 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778, ext. 201.