Stroking to Prevent Strokes

Sitting May Lead to Earlier Death

The American Heart Association Reviews the Best Ways to Get Healthy, Stay Motivated

Beet Juice as a Natural Blood Pressure Medicine

Only 10% of Americans Are Eating the Right Amount of Salt, Reports CDC

High Tea Consumption Linked to Heart Health

Age at Menopause May Predict Cardiovascular Risk

HDL or "Good" Cholesterol May Reduce Cancer Risk

Heart Attacks in California Are Way Down

Tiny Vacuum Removes Blood Clots from the Brain

Mediterranean Diet Helps Hearts That Have Already Had Trouble

Less Sugar, Lower Blood Pressure

Don't Forget to Brush Your Teeth - It Might Save Your Life

High-Fat Meals May Impair Breathing, Worsen Asthma

End of Life Decisions: Defibrillators and Pacemakers

High-Bran Diets May Help Diabetics Live Longer

Overtime Ups Risk of Death from Heart Disease

To Lower Cholesterol, Researchers Say, Go a Little Nuts

Get to a Doctor Soon after a Mini-Stroke to Avoid Having a Real One

Warfarin and Supplements Don't Mix

Secrets of the Mediterranean Diet May Lie in the Olive Oil

Earplugs and Eye Masks Help Hospital Patients Sleep Better

B-Vitamins May Help Protect from Heart Disease and Stroke

Walking Shelter Dogs Helps Heart Patients Recover Faster - and Makes the Pups Happy, Too

Don't Replace Saturated Fats with Carbs If You Want to Help Your Heart, Study Finds

Blood Pressure Meds Might Reduce the Spread of Breast Cancer, Study Says

Chocolate Cuts Risk for Heart Attack and Stroke, Lowers Blood Pressure

An Alternative to Heart Surgery for Leaky Valves

Blood Vessels Rebound After People Quit Smoking

Under Acute Stress, Higher Blood Pressure May Not Be Such a Bad Thing

Interrupting Blood Supply May Help Patients during Heart Attack

Don't Worry, Be Active

Diet and Cholesterol in Middle Age and Beyond

Six Months of Nicotine Patches Work Better Than Two

Stressed Out: The Behavior and Biology of Stress

High Blood Pressure Associated with Dementia, Alzheimer's

Heart Rate May Predict Heart-Related Death, Study Finds

Antipsychotic Users Not Being Tested for Side Effects

Heart Attack Survival Rate Unchanged in 30 Years

Watching TV May Shorten Your Life

Researchers Identify Risk Factors to Predict Second Stroke

Stem Cells Help Heal Heart after Attack

Diet, Cognitive Ability, and Heart Health Interlinked in Seniors, Study Finds

High-Carb and High-Protein Diets Both Effective in Maintaining Weight-Loss

The Impact of “Good” and “Bad” Cholesterol on Heart Disease

Can Exercise Make You Smarter?

Selenium Supplements May Increase Cholesterol

Telephone Intervention Helps Post-Surgery Heart Patients

Low Cholesterol May Signal Undiagnosed Cancer

Heart Drug Outperformed by High-Dose Niacin in Head-to-Head Trial

Diet and Exercise Stave off Diabetes Better than Meds

Cocoa May Help Keep the Heart Healthy, Study Says

Boosting Fiber May Help Thwart Belly Fat

Protein in Blood Could Predict Heart Attack and Death, Not Stroke

Flexible Bodies, Flexible Arteries

Researchers Find A Way to Help Keep Heart Young

Whole Grains Good for Men's Heart Health

High Sugar Diet Raises Blood Pressure

Doctor-Patient Communication: Race Matters

Losing Weight Helps the Heart Return to Normal

Optimism is Linked to Less Heart Trouble, Better Life Expectancy

Little Lifesavers: Children Can Learn CPR

“Silent” Strokes May Put Seniors at Risk for Memory Loss and Cognitive Problems

Kids and Cholesterol: To Screen Or Not To Screen?

Vegetable Protein Linked to Lower Blood Pressure

Red Yeast Rice — Not Coming to a Town Near You

High-Glycemic Foods May Up Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

Tongue and Throat Exercises Help Ease Sleep Apnea

Why It's So Hard to Eat a Low-Salt Diet

Slow, Frequent Walks Better for Heart Health

Drinking Alcohol May Lengthen Life, Ward off Dementia

Secondhand Smoke Exerts Ill Effects Quickly, Researchers Say

Drinks Sweetened with Fructose May Pose Heart Risk

Human Heart Cells Are Capable of Regenerating After All, Say Researchers

3 Grams Less Saves Lives

Putting the Facts in Drug Ads How to Improve Drug Ads

Pick a Guideline, Any Guideline

Can Potassium Counteract High Sodium?

A New Weapon to Lower Cholesterol Levels?

Walking is Good Medicine for Blocked Leg Arteries

Sleep More, Live Better

Music May Be Good for the Heart, Literally

Risks for Metabolic Syndrome

Triglycerides and Stroke

Obese Children's Arteries Are Just as Bad as Middle-Aged Adults'

Ultrasound as Clot Buster

Can Aspirin Help Prevent a First Heart Attack?

Location, Location, Location: Surviving Cardiac Arrest

Mediterranean Diet Wins Again

Statins Do Not Protect Women from Heart Attacks

Salt Still Raises Blood Pressure

Coffee Drinkers Live Longer

Treatment Twofer: Depression, Hypertension Respond to Integrated Therapy

Optimism Pays Off for Heart Patients

How to Increase "Good" Cholesterol

Treating Heart Risk in the Obese — Pills Are Not Enough

Aspirin and Hypertension

Using Breakfast to Stabilize Blood Sugar

Good News from Fat Rats: Lipoic Acid Lowers Triglycerides

Fixing the Gait

CHD Patients: Exercising the Least and Needing It Most

Seeing It Coming

U.S. Leads Europe in Strokes

Getting Our Children off the Road to Heart Disease

Triglycerides: the New Cholesterol?

The 30-Minute Solution

Eat Less Or Exercise More? A Little of Either Will Help Your Heart

Calcium & Heart Attack in Older Women

Men, Women and Aspirin

Vitamin E: Yes and No

Heart Disease and Anger Mismanagement

Low Cholesterol Associated with Cancer?

Women and the Mid-Life Stroke

What Do You Know About Stroke?

Belly Fat and Disease

St. Valentine's Gift from Medicare

Acute Pulmonary Embolism

USA #1 — in Treating Hypertension

Heart Failure: Fatter Is Better?

Folic Acid Cuts Heart Disease Risk

Pregnant Smokers May "Program" Their Kids to Smoke

Does Prostate Cancer Treatment Cause Diabetes and Heart Disease?

It Is the Humidity

"Good" Fat Protein May Protect Blood Vessels

For Seniors: What to Do About High Blood Pressure

A New Look at Stroke Prevention

Hypertension in the Elderly: Too Little, Too Late

Breaking Up (Exercise) Is Good to Do

Anti-Heart Attack Antibiotics?

Carotid Artery Repair: Stent Or Scalpel?

Reversal Therapy, a Better Treatment for Heart Disease

A Narrowing Question: Do Clogged Arteries Secretly Re-Clog After Treatment?

Good Health to Diet For: Blood Pressure and Nutrition

A New Treatment for Congestive Heart Failure?

Less is Less: the Undertreatment of High Blood Pressure

A New Way of Looking at Atherosclerosis

Going With The Flow: Exercise And Healthy Blood Vessels

Low Cholesterol and Heart Problems

Traumatic Aortic Rupture

Sleep Apnea: The Noisy Killer

Coronary Heart Disease in Women

Diet and Heart Disease

Current Treatments for Heart Attacks

Emerging Treatments: Unstable Angina

Why Doctors Use Echocardiography