Heart disease may be partly reversed with very high doses of statins. The drugs cause significant drops in LDL (“bad”) cholesterol—stopping the progression of heart disease and, in some cases, reversing it. Results are preliminary and more research is needed, but...
About 1.6 million Americans undergo heart bypass surgery, angioplasty or stent procedures annually—even though there's no evidence that...
Every year, about 650,000 Americans have H their first heart attack—a temporary interruption in blood flow to the heart that...
There is promising new treatment for heart failure. Diuretic drugs are the standard treatment to relieve fluid buildup, but they act slowly,...
Rapid decreases in barometric pressure (usually associated with precipitation, especially during winter) are linked to heart attack. In a review of 1,...
Your next heart surgeon may be a robot. Well, not exactly; but instead of standing over you wielding a scalpel, the surgeon...
In a two-year study of 37,233 heart attack patients, those who underwent angioplasty in a hospital that used that treatment most...
High levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), a protein that is produced in response to inflammation, contribute to heart tissue damage that accompanies...
Researchers reviewed the medical records of 69,493 adults admitted to hospitals for vascular events—strokes, heart attacks and transient ischemic attacks...
Giving heart cells a dose of sugar in the t 1- important first few hours after a heart, attack improves the chances...
Don't place a cell phone within six inches of your implanted defibrillator when the phone is on. The defibrillator could...
You might have read the headlines in recent years—moderate consumption of al- I cohol, especially red wine, decreases the risk of...