Articles Tagged with “HEART DISEASE”

Positive psychology may be the next logical tool for cardiology, according to psychiatrist Jeff C. Huffman.

For decades, a tiny encampment of researchers has held that statin treatment is a hoax. In a time when contrarian views roar to life on social media, how can medicine keep minority opinions from doing irreparable harm?

As the role of the pharmacist changes, one program explores how it can help people with heart disease and other conditions.

The risk of dying from heart disease varies dramatically from one ZIP code to the next. Researchers are teasing apart the reasons why.

When Eisenhower came clean about his heart attack, it allowed one physician to change the nation’s views on cardiac health.

The find: big orange tonsils. The payoff: genetic insight, a crucial molecule and possible treatments for heart disease and Alzheimer’s.

Acute inflammation fights off infection, but the chronic kind, simmering inside most of the population, can be deadly.

The author climbed a mountain against doctor’s orders—but not against his better judgment.

Someday, we might all be taking it—even if we don’t really need it.