anger

Rage Is Bad For Your Heart: New Study Shows Link Between Anger And Heart Attack

By Christie Rizk | May 14, 2013 06:35 PM EDT

Intense fits of anger can raise a person's risk for heart attack, a new study finds.

heart

Young At Heart: Researchers Identify A Protein That Could Help Treat Age-Related Heart Failure

By Christie Rizk | May 09, 2013 12:00 PM EDT

In a new study, researchers describe how a protein called GDF-11 rejuvenated the hearts of old mice.

Duke Scientists Engineer a Living Human Heart Patch

Duke Scientists Engineer A Living Human Heart Patch

By Anthony Rivas | May 06, 2013 09:32 PM EDT

Duke biomedical engineers have built a live patch that they hope will be able to fix damaged hearts.

Public Support Influences Soldier's Mental Distress, Study Finds Ways To Reduce PTSD

One in 12 in Military Has Clogged Heart Arteries

By Genevra Pittman | Dec 28, 2012 04:11 PM EST

Just over one in 12 U.S. service members who died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars had plaque buildup in the arteries around their hearts.

stress

Stress May Be as Bad for Your Heart as Smoking Five Cigarettes a Day

By Makini Brice | Dec 19, 2012 04:55 PM EST

A study has found that stress can elevate your risk of a heart attack by 27 percent - the equivalent of smoking five cigarettes each day.

Researchers Convert Heart Muscle Cells Into Pacemakers by Inserting a Gene

By Amber Moore | Dec 17, 2012 05:29 PM EST

Researchers have found a way to turn ordinary heart muscle cells into pacemaker cells just by inserting a gene.

fainting

Fainting May Spell Heart Troubles

By Christine Hsu | Dec 13, 2012 12:10 PM EST

If you've ever fainted, you could have heart trouble, new research suggests.

exercise

Working Out for More Than 50 Minutes a Day May Lead to Early Death

By Makini Brice | Nov 30, 2012 04:16 PM EST

Workouts should be limited to 50 minutes a day so that exercisers do not overexert their hearts.

Toddler Cannot Be Scolded Because Extreme Emotion Can Stop Her Heart

By Makini Brice | Nov 20, 2012 01:02 PM EST

Two-year-old Ava Fenton may be called lucky when she starts attending school and she reveals that her parents never yell at her.

baldness

Aging Face and Thinning Hair May Signal Impending Heart Attack

By Christine Hsu | Nov 06, 2012 12:41 PM EST

A new study revealed that baldness, earlobe crease or yellow fatty deposits around the eyelids, and other signs of aging could predict the risk of heart disease.

vitamin, supplements

Multivitamins Don't Lower Heart Disease Risk

By Amber Moore | Nov 06, 2012 11:07 AM EST

New study found no association between multivitamins and lower cardiovascular disease risk.

Stranger's Stem Cells as Good as Own in Heart Tissue Repair

By Amber Moore | Nov 06, 2012 10:47 AM EST

Donated cells work as good as own stem cells during heart tissue repair.

Jakub Halik

Czech Man With No Heart Dies of Liver Failure 6 Months After Operation

By Christine Hsu | Oct 17, 2012 05:58 PM EDT

The Czech man who survived for more than half a year without a heart has died at the age of 37.

Moderate Drinking Linked to Abnormal Heart Rhythm

By Amy Norton | Oct 04, 2012 10:27 AM EDT

People with heart disease who drink, even moderately, may have a slightly increased risk of a common heart rhythm problem.

no heart

Czech Man Becomes the First Person in the World to Live With No Heart or Pulse

By Christine Hsu | Oct 03, 2012 04:25 PM EDT

A 37-year-old man from Czech Republic recently became the first man to live without a heart for six months.

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