For decades, surviving a heart attack has come with a lifelong prescription: Stay on medications called beta-blockers to help protect your heart. But doctors are taking a closer look at whether ...

Share on Pinterest Beta-blockers may not be necessary for all people after a heart attack, according to new research. Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images Having a heart attack can raise a person’s ...

Every year, more than 200,000 people in Germany suffer a heart attack. This is caused by blocked coronary arteries. As a result, part of the heart muscle is no longer supplied with sufficient blood ...

Sleeping doesn’t count as cardio, but it is good for your heart. And the time you conk out each night could be the difference between a high risk and a low risk of heart attack or stroke. Finnish ...

A powerful cholesterol-lowering drug may be changing the rules of heart disease prevention. Researchers found that evolocumab, typically used for people who already have cardiovascular disease, can ...

Tray Baggarly survived a massive heart attack and required a co-worker, EMS crew and hospital to shock his heart a combined 18 times to keep him alive. A co-worker who is a retired firefighter used an ...

A new study examined the association between sleep habits and heart disease. After getting 7 days of sleep data from the participants, the researchers used the following 10 years of health data to ...

When Ashley Perlow felt a sharp pain shoot across her chest and into both wrists, she didn't think it could be a heart attack. She was 36, a new mom, and otherwise healthy. At the hospital, blood ...

LEON, Kan. (KSNW) — A former Leon firefighter is speaking out after nearly losing his life while battling wildfires in Oklahoma. In late March, fires broke out in Blaine County due to strong winds and ...

A routine blood test taken by millions in the U.S. each year to measure "bad" cholesterol is not the best measure to guide treatment and prevent heart attacks and strokes, suggests a new Northwestern ...

Among stable, relatively low-risk patients who had previously suffered a heart attack, discontinuing beta-blockers after at least one year was found to be non-inferior, or comparable, to continuing ...

You’re lying on a hospital gurney, waiting for the anaesthesiologist to send you under so you can be taken into theatre and the operation can begin. Naturally, you’re nervous. But mixed with the quiet ...