Lori Sepich smoked for years and sometimes skipped taking her blood pressure medicine. But she never thought she’d have a heart attack. The possibility “just wasn’t registering with me,” said the ...

Eleven medical organizations advised changes to preventive cardiac care that it says could markedly reduce heart attacks and strokes. By Gina Kolata People at risk of heart disease should start trying ...

HOUSTON – A growing body of research is challenging the idea that heart attacks are mostly an older person’s problem. Cardiologist Dr. Majid Basit with Memorial Hermann Medical Group says he’s seeing ...

Heart attacks are scary, and they happen way too often—the CDC estimates that someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds in the U.S. While common sense says the best thing to do when you’re having a ...

The last thing someone in their 30s or 40s should worry about is dying of a heart attack. But new research shows more are. The proportion of adults ages 18 to 54 who died in a hospital of a severe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One experimental injection helped mice and pigs heal after heart attack by boosting a protective heart hormone. (CREDIT: ...

A troubling new pattern is emerging in the United States: adults younger than 55 — historically at lower risk — are increasingly dying from severe heart attacks, reversing decades of progress in ...

A new study found that heart attack deaths were up among younger adults with women more likely than men to die after a first heart attack. According to new research published today in a Go Red for ...

As a hospital patient transporter, Tommy Bell was used to helping people get to and from procedures at the Florida facility he worked at − but he never expected to become a patient there himself.

Weight-loss (GLP-1 mimicking) drugs may help prevent further tissue damage following a heart attack, significantly reducing the risk of further life-threatening complications that affect up to half of ...

Since GLP-1 blockbusters semaglutide and tirzepatide broke into the mainstream for their ability to treat diabetes and provoke weight loss, evidence has been piling up that the molecules can reduce ...