More Heart Health News

• Low-Fat Diet Does Little to Alter Cholesterol Levels

  THURSDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- The latest report from a massive trial to determine ...

• Learning May Be Tougher for the Teen Brain

  THURSDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- When kids hit adolescence, their learning ability hits the ...

• Implant Shows Promise for Hard-to-Treat Epilepsy

  THURSDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- Deep-brain electrical stimulation reduced the frequency of epileptic seizures ...

• Could Lowering Blood Pressure Help Stop Dementia?

  WEDNESDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) -- In the ongoing struggle to find treatments -- and ...

• Widespread Public Defibrillators May Save Lives

  WEDNESDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) -- The availability of public automated external defibrillators (AEDs) increases ...

• DNA Test May Cut Hospitalizations Caused by Blood Thinner

  TUESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- A simple genetic test that helps doctors determine the ...

• Treat Women With Heart Attack Just Like Men: Study

  TUESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- Women who suffer a heart attack are more likely ...

• Stenting May Save Legs

  TUESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- When angioplasty fails, patients with severe peripheral arterial disease ...

• Newer Blood Thinner Beats Plavix for Bypass Patients

  TUESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- In a trial comparing two anti-clotting drugs, patients given ...

• Blood Vessels Bounce Back Once Smokers Quit

  TUESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- Blood vessel function rapidly recuperates after smokers kick the ...

• Erectile Dysfunction Plus Heart Disease Raises Death Risk

  MONDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- Men suffering from both cardiovascular disease and erectile dysfunction ...

• Repeated Anesthesia May Hamper Children's Learning Ability

  MONDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- Brain stem cell loss is the reason why repeated ...

• Boosting Vitamin D Can Do a Heart Good

  MONDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that extra vitamin D could make ...

• Women's Chromosomes May Affect Blood Pressure

  MONDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have believed that testosterone and estrogen play a ...

• Freezing, Medicating Away a Dangerous Irregular Heart Rhythm

  MONDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- New data presented at a major cardiology meeting Monday ...

• Aspirin Alone Works Best to Prevent Clots a Year After Stenting

  MONDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- After 12 months, giving aspirin alone to patients who ...

• Hope for Inherited, Dangerously High Cholesterol

  SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- A new drug called mipomersen reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL) ...

• Intense Cholesterol, Blood Pressure Therapies Don't Help Type 2 Diabetics

  SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Two sets of results from a large U.S. government-sponsored ...

• More Evidence That Swings in Blood Pressure Raise Stroke Risk

  SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) --Following on recent, similar research, a large five-year study points ...