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Here’s another reason for pregnant women to take folic acid supplements: they help prevent fetal heart malformations, new research from the Netherlands suggests.

“Given the relatively high prevalence of…

Gender differences persist in the quality of cardiac care across Ontario, according to a health study by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences…

Measuring body mass index or waist size in overweight people can accurately predict the risk of heart disease, Dutch scientists said on Monday.

A large 10-year study found…

Using a new mathematical model of heart cells, University of Iowa investigators have shown how activation of a critical enzyme, calmodulin kinase II (CaM kinase), disrupts the electrical activity of heart…

When the heart is stopped and restarted, the patient’s life may be saved but their brain is often permanently damaged. Therapeutic hypothermia, a treatment in which the patient’s body temperature…

The popular herbal supplement ginkgo biloba does not appear to prevent heart attacks and strokes in older adults, but may help lower their risk of blocked arteries…

Europe’s use of implantable heart rhythm devices has doubled in the past five years but some countries - notably Spain and Britain - lag well behind, suggesting patients there…

Physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center soon will begin implanting a new device designed to improve breathing in patients with upper spinal-cord injuries or other diseases…

Walking away or letting things pass may be an unhealthy way to deal with unfair treatment on the job, research from Sweden shows.

Men who reported using such “covert”…

Using highly precise measurements of plasma lipoprotein concentrations determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), researchers led by Daniel Chasman at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical…

Spanish research appearing to show that very heavy drinking can reduce men’s risk of heart disease has come under fire from scientists who say the study is flawed…

The battery of tests given to a patient having a heart attack in a U.S. hospital adds up to a dose of radiation equivalent to 725 chest X-rays, researchers…

Inhibition of a protein known to contribute to heart failure also appears to be protective of the heart in more acute cardiac stress injury, namely ischemia reperfusion,…

Heart Disease Patients Who Practice Transcendental Meditation Have Nearly 50% Lower Rates of Heart Attack, Stroke, and Death

Patients with coronary heart…

Slow walking may not only mean getting to your destination later, according to a new study by French scientists: Older people who walk slowly are almost three times…

On Sunday, November 15, 2009, Florida Atlantic University (FAU) researcher Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., the first Sir Richard Doll Research Professor in the Charles E. Schmidt…

To best detect early signs of life-threatening heart defects in young athletes, screening programs should include both popular diagnostic tests, not just one of them, according…

An innovative method is being used to repair the breastbone after it is intentionally broken to provide access to the heart during open-heart surgery. The technique uses a state-of-the-art…

University of Virginia Health System patient Anne Kirchmeir has added new meaning to the expression, “heart of gold.”

During a recent visit to UVA Medical Center, Kirchmeir surprised…

One in four heart failure patients on Medicare winds up back in the hospital a month after being discharged, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday in a finding that illustrates…

Older adults who walk slowly are about three times more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than those who go at a brisk pace, research shows.

Almost a quarter of heart failure patients with Medicare are back in the hospital within a month after discharge, researchers report in…

Physicians with California Pacific Medical Center are among the first in the nation to use a new advanced mapping technology to help treat patients suffering from…

Heart rate variability, a sign of a healthy heart, has been shown to be higher in yoga practitioners than in non-practitioners, according to research to be published in a forthcoming issue of the…

Higher levels of phosphorus in the blood are linked to increased calcification of the coronary arteries— a key marker of heart disease risk, according to a study…