Heart Disease Stories
- Patients can no longer use their good cholesterol levels to ensure they're protected from heart disease.
- Predicting which patients are at risk for arrhythmia may help physicians decide who needs defibrillators.
- New research suggests cold weather can increase risk for heart failure and atrial fibrillation.
- Two new studies paint the popular blood-thinning drug Warfarin in a new, negative light.
- A new study suggests the Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk Equation overestimates individuals' risk for developing cardiovascular disease, and by consequence doctors have over prescribed statins.
- New study suggests a small amount of chocolate every day may help prevent insulin resistance and diabetes, two risk factors for heart disease.
- In a breakthrough study, researchers were able to chemically change skin cells to heart and brain cells.
- People with heart disease should eat like a Mediterranean native to lower their risk of heart attack and stroke, say researchers.
- What's killing the most Americans?
- New heart drugs hailed as breakthrough treatments by researchers are struggling to gain traction among prescribing doctors, posing a headache for makers such as Novartis, which reported more weak sales for its Entresto medicine on Thursday.
- New study suggests loneliness and social isolation are risk factors for heart attack, chest pain, and stroke.
- Fundamentalist religious parents are legally allowed to keep their children from doctors in certain states.