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People with coronary heart disease and a type D personality - a propensity to experience negative feelings - have a considerably increased risk of having a heart attack, needing heart…

High doses of medications known as corticosteroids may be linked to an increased risk for atrial fibrillation, a heart rhythm disorder characterized by an irregular heartbeat,…

A researcher at the University of Rochester Medical Center has won the 2006 Thomas R. Lee Career Development Award from the American Diabetes Association (ADA), which…

Long-term cocaine use may be associated with regional left ventricular dysfunction, a condition that reduces the heart’s pumping efficiency and increases the risk of heart failure, according to researchers at…

Women with elevated serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) in the absence of hepatitis or excessive alcohol consumption are twice as likely to develop coronary heart disease as women with a…

Some heart attack survivors may be able to go back to work much sooner than is typically recommended, a preliminary study suggests.

Australian researchers found that certain…

A new study suggests people who are overweight or obese early in life may not be more likely to have heart disease or stroke as adults.

However, the study’s…

Internationally renowned cardiologist C. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., is hoping that innovative diagnostic tests for microvascular cardiac disease, such as those offered at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, will…

Whether exposure to secondhand smoke increases the chance that children with a family history of cardiovascular disease will develop the disease themselves is under study at…

A new drug that blocks a protein could reduce the damage and scarring caused by heart attacks, British scientists said on Wednesday.

The drug interferes with C-reactive protein (CRP), which…

Drinking filtered coffee - even six or more cups per day - does not appear to increase the risk of coronary heart disease, according to a long-term study conducted…

Researchers at Queen’s University and the University of Pennsylvania have identified one reason why drugs like Celebrex and Vioxx - once popular for the treatment of pain and inflammation -…

Treatment of non-cardiac chest pain: a controlled trial of hypnotherapy Online First. Gut 2006; doi. 10.1136/gut.2005.086694

Hypnotherapy seems to relieve severe chest pain that is not caused by a heart condition, known…

For the last few years, women have heard conflicting reports about the risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). A new study that analyzes many…

A rare form of Alzheimer’s disease has been discovered in a resident of Camelford, the town in south west England which bore the brunt of the accidental discharge…

Painkillers called COX-2 inhibitors may increase the risk of heart attacks by raising blood pressure and making the blood more likely to clot, researchers said on Thursday.

They do so…

Long QT syndrome is an uncommon, and sometimes fatal, heart rhythm disorder that is often present from birth. It gets its name from the peculiar pattern of the electrocardiogram (ECG…

UAB researchers are investigating a potential connection between a common stomach bacteria and the incidence of heart disease among African-Americans. The bacteria H. pylori is found in the lining of the stomach…

Patients with severe sleep-disordered breathing are two to four times more likely to experience complex, abnormal heart rhythms while sleeping than individuals without the problem, according to…

A new collaboration covers the spectrum from molecules to therapies. Three research organisations have announced the merging of their expertise to fight cardiovascular diseases, which are among the most common…

A British girl is thought to have become the first heart transplant patient in the UK and possibly the world to have had her donor organ removed and her own…

Research to be published in the April 18 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology provides the first explanation…

Patients enrolled in randomized clinical trials of coronary interventions are younger and have better cardiac risk profiles than the average patient in clinical practice, European heart doctors report. As such,…

If a high-fat cholesterol-laden snack doesn’t trigger a heart attack, then a healthy economy just might.

The risk of a fatal heart attack rises when the U.S. economy strengthens and increases…

When it comes to cell signaling and bioregulation, it’s tough to find a more important molecule than nitric oxide (NO). Dysfunction of NO-mediated signaling is thought to be…