This weight loss diet could prevent, reverse heart failure, shows study
Research from Saint Louis University finds that high fat or "ketogenic" diets could completely prevent, or even reverse heart failure caused by a metabolic...
COVID-19 is a double blow for chronic disease patients
There has never been a more dangerous time than the COVID-19 pandemic for people with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, cancer, respiratory problems...
Scientists find a new way to detect heart disease
In a recent study at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and elsewhere, researchers found that sending a “selfie” to the doctor could be...
The mummies’ message: Take steps against heart disease
Centuries before bacon cheeseburgers, cigarettes and couch potatoes, people had clogged arteries that can lead to heart attack and stroke.
How do we know this?...
COVID-19 could threaten your heart, study shows
It has been months since the coronavirus pandemic gripped the nation, leaving more than 200,000 people dead—a number that continues to climb.
Meanwhile, we are...
This study shows a clear link between heart disease and COVID-19
One of the most harrowing effects of COVID-19 is severe damage to the lungs, which makes breathing hard or impossible for those who are...
What fuels the beating heart?
Study reveals nutrients used by normal and failing hearts.
A team led by scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania...
Scientists show a molecular dance that keeps your heart beating
It might look like a little game at the molecular scale.
Filament-like proteins in heart muscle cells have to be exactly the same length so...
This diabetes drug may help treat heart failure, study shows
Drug empagliflozin was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2014.
It limits renal sugar resorption and is the first drug in the...
Some heart disease patients have low risk of severe COVID-19 symptoms
Adults and children born with heart defects had a lower-than-expected risk of developing moderate or severe COVID-19 symptoms, finds a study of more than...