Heart Health

Heart disease is, hands down, the #1 killer of women. Perhaps even scarier, it’s silent until it’s an issue. Harvard faculty cardiologist Stephanie Moore has 7 simple steps to help you take care of your ticker to head off harm.

In 2015, when Denise Castille experienced swollen feet and then heart palpitations, she visited her doctor and a cardiologist. Both said she was fine. She wasn’t. Soon after, the then 46-year-old had a “widow-maker” heart attack, a term used to refer to a serious heart attack occurring when a major artery in the heart is blocked. It’s often called a...

Doctors are reminding all adults, and especially younger women, to be on the lookout for symptoms of heart disease for American Heart Health Month. Warning signs for women can be subtle: shortness of breath, jaw or back pain, or stroke-like symptoms including weakness in one side of the body.

Seemingly contradictory findings show why more research into the effects of cannabis on the heart and the rest of the body is needed.

Researchers say a cheap, daily pill combining four cholesterol and blood pressure medicines taken with low-dose aspirin can cut the risk of heart attacks, strokes and heart-related deaths by nearly one third.

Researchers using Medicare records found that heart attack patients who turned 80 within the previous two weeks were less likely to get bypass surgery than those who were two weeks shy of that birthday.