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Choosing the right hospital can be the key to surviving a heart attack, says cardiologist Richard Stein, MD, director of the Urban Community Cardiology Program at New York City's New York University Medical Center and author of the book Outliving...
What you need to know about different types of heart medications, risk factors, diagnostic tests, surgical procedures and more can be found...
Heart attack rates have declined in cities that have banned smoking in public places. Example: After Pueblo, Colorado, banned smoking in restaurants,...
School-age children who eat out four or more t) times a week were more likely to develop cardiovascular risks, such as higher...
Heart attack patients treated with statins within 24 hours of the attack were 54% less likely to die than those not given...
Heart disease may be partly reversed with very high doses of statins. The drugs cause significant drops in LDL (“bad”) cholesterol—stopping...
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...