A New Brunswick biochemistry professor is using fish to better understand the impact that taurine — an amino acid — could ...

For women, the long-term fallout of an early-in-life heart attack is also magnified. A host of studies have shown that young ...

“This evolution over the past 50 years reflects incredible successes in the way heart attacks and other... heart [diseases] are managed,” the study read Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at ...

But research suggests that while heart attack rates have declined in older adults, they’ve increased in those under age 40, especially among women. And a new study is revealing some potential hidden ...

New research out of Harvard finds optimists are less likely to have heart attacks, heart disease or strokes. Scientists reviewed more than 200 studies to come to this conclusion. They found those who ...

These are not the joyful, helpful SMuRFs of your childhood. The researchers found that many women at risk of a heart episode have high levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), a marker ...

Heart attacks don’t just happen out of nowhere. While they can feel sudden and shocking, they’re usually the result of conditions and lifestyle factors that build up over years or even decades.

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

This news might break your heart — literally. A shocking new study found that the go-to treatment doctors have been using to manage heart attacks for the last 40 years may offer no real benefit for ...

Heart attacks that occur at night are less severe than those that strike during the day. A new study from the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) explains why. Published in the ...

There's more to worry about this winter than a runny nose and slippery roads. — -- Fluffy, white snow may be the stuff of holiday greeting cards but, to cardiologists, it's a heart attack waiting ...