ER worker’s heart stopped, leaving her ‘the color of Cookie Monster’
As a child life specialist in the emergency room of a children's hospital, Christi Eberhardt spent a Wednesday morning getting kids comfortable with their...
Snow shovelling: Healthy exercise or deadly activity?
Winter’s just over a month old and already from coast to coast, major storms have hit.
While the snow can provide great opportunities for different...
Heart attack risk has decreased 50% in people with diabetes
People with type 2 diabetes are twice as likely to have a heart attack or die from heart disease compared to people without diabetes.
Management of...
This Jewish tradition may benefit heart health, study finds
In a study from the University of Cincinnati, scientists found that people who wear tefillin, leather bands used in a Jewish religious practice that...
People with COVID-19 retain higher risks of heart disease, death for 18 months
In a study from the University of Hong Kong, scientists found COVID-19 is linked to higher risks of heart disease and death in the...
5 things to know about AEDs after a defibrillator helped save Damar Hamlin
We've all walked past them: Little red, yellow or green boxes with hearts on them and the letters "AED."
Common bone meds may harm heart health
A recent study from the University of Oxford found new evidence that treatment with the novel anti-osteoporotic medicine, romosozumab, may lead to a higher...
Research shows new method to repair heart muscle
A recent study from the University of North Carolina Health Care has made a big advance in the promising field of cellular reprogramming and...
The ‘guardian of the genome’ can help prevent heart disease
In a study from the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares and elsewhere, scientists found that acquired mutations in the gene encoding the protein p53...
Scientists find new genes linked to heart failure
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that nearly 6.2 million Americans have some form of heart failure.