According to the Irish Heart Foundation, high cholesterol is a major contributor to heart disease. It is responsible for ...

This column is the first in a series about risk factors for atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), the cause of several health problems, including heart attacks — the number one cause of death ...

Daniel Robert became a free-agent in November and in early February, signed a minor-league contract to return to the Phillies ...

The signs of our child are different for all of us, but one thing they have in common is that they’re all signs of love.

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia and is a leading cause of stroke and heart failure yet often remains undiagnosed. Screening has been proposed to identify asymptomatic AF and ...

A dangerously high blood pressure reading for women is 180/120 mmHg or higher. Learn more about the health risks and when to seek emergency care.

Melissa Claire Egan, known for her roles in daytime soap operas "The Young and the Restless" and "All My Children," revealed she was diagnosed with coronary heart disease in late January. The actress, ...

New research led by City St George's, University of London has found that routine heart screening in young people can identify potentially life-threatening cardiac conditions and save lives, and that ...

When patients arrive for a cardiac MRI at Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center, they may not realize that while they lie still in the scanner.

Both Gary LeGros, 70, a Jeanerette city judge, and Paul Herman Toups, an 84-year-old retired small-business owner, underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, a minimally invasive ...

AI didn’t replace me as a doctor. It made me better. Ashish K. Jha, the former dean of the Brown University School of Public ...