Don't blame fast food: Mummies had heart disease

You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies.

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Study: Cholesterol drug lowers blood clot risk

Statin drugs, taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, also can cut the risk of developing dangerous blood clots that can lodge in the legs or lungs, a major study suggests.

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Studies: Vitamin pills don't prevent heart disease

Vitamins C and E — pills taken by millions of Americans — do nothing to prevent heart disease in men, one of the largest and longest studies of these supplements has found.

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Study: Wider cholesterol drug use may save lives

People with low cholesterol and no big risk for heart disease had dramatically lower rates of heart attacks, death and stroke if they took the cholesterol pill Crestor, a large study found.

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Cleveland Gorillas Have Heart Disease

Animal doctors are using human drugs on a pair of zoo gorillas with heart disease. Mokolo, 20, and Bebac, 23, were examined and diagnosed earlier this month at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo as part of a national study of gorilla health.

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Heart Disease Kills More Women Under 45

For decades, heart disease death rates have been falling. But a new study shows a troubling turn — more women under 45 are dying of heart disease due to clogged arteries, and the death rate for men that age has leveled off.

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Heart Disease Still Big Problem in South

West Virginia is making slight yet discernible progress in reducing deaths from heart disease, but it remains one of the states hit hardest by the nation's No. 1 killer. Mississippi tops the list.

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Study Shows Drug Reverses Heart Disease

High doses of a powerful cholesterol-lowering drug seemed to actually reverse heart disease — not just keep it from getting worse — new research showed.

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You take pain medication for a headache... and it gets worse. Is it possible? Definitely. Read a checklist of symptoms that may mean you're experiencing medication rebound effect and the best methods for getting rid of the problem, once and for all.

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Heart disease patients who practise Transcendental Meditation have reduced death rates, US researchers have said. At a meeting of the American Heart Association they said they had randomly assigned 201 African Americans to meditate or to make lifestyle changes.

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Drinking a bottle of wine a day, or half a dozen beers, cuts the risk of heart disease by more than half in men, it has been shown.

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PARIS - MEN who drink alcohol every day see a nearly one-third average reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease, according to a long-term study among Spanish men published on Thursday.

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Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests. The Spanish research involving more than 15,500 men and 26,000 women found large quantities of alcohol could be even more beneficial for men.

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ORLANDO, Florida — The curse of the mummy may truly be fatal.

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So maybe salt isn't as bad for you as many think...

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The study suggests youth taking certain types of anti-psychotic medications have three times the risk of developing abnormally high blood sugars or Type 2 diabetes and two times the risk of being overweight or obese.

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Smoking bans are effective at reducing the risk of heart attacks and heart disease associated with exposure to secondhand smoke, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.

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The use of aspirin to ward off heart attacks and strokes in those who do not have obvious cardiovascular disease should be abandoned, researchers say.

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Sometimes that crushing chest pain associated with a heart attack is not a heart attack at all, but something else that has gone terribly wrong with the heart - because something has gone terribly wrong with life.

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Booklet from the Heart & Stroke Foundation Canada for women concerned about heart disease and stroke. PDF

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The World Health Organization (WHO) is spreading propaganda like the flu to convince people new, genetically engineered, live "mock" influenza viruses in vaccines are safe.

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by Eleanora I. McBean, Ph.D., N.D. Many vaccines also cause other diseases besides the one for which they are given. For instance, smallpox vaccine often causes syphilis, paralysis, leprosy, and cancer.

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We are constantly bombarded with gloom and doom news stories warning us that heart disease is America's number one killer, followed closely by cancer.

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Key example: study of more than 800 GE employees in the US found those who were offered rolling payments of up to $750 a year to quit smoking and remain abstinent were about three times more likely to quit long-term.

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At last, good news for anyone who ever despaired of fitting into skinny jeans: Thin thighs might actually kill you. Or at least put a strain on your heart.

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Fried chicken, fly vixen/ Give me heart disease but need you in my kitchen/" --Nas, "Fried Chicken," Untitled, 2008.

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Exercise may work better than surgical procedures for some heart patients. Angioplasty is a common treatment for people with worsening heart disease symptoms to relieve chest pain caused by clogged arteries.

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Millions of people - including a substantial number of the "worried well" - take a daily dose of the drug in the belief it will keep them healthy.

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Anyone interested in healthy and nutritious foods has probably heard that whole grains are far better for you than the processed variety like white bread and sugar-laden cereals.

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The new study finds that people who drink more than four cups of sweetened beverages a day are more at risk of developing fatty liver which can eventually lead to diabetes and heart disease.

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Heart attack survivors who eat chocolate two or more times per week cut their risk of dying from heart disease about threefold compared to those who never touch the stuff, Swedish scientists have reported.

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Heart attack survivors who eat chocolate two or more times per week cut their risk of dying from heart disease about threefold compared to those who never touch the stuff, scientists have reported.

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Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.

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