Revascularization procedures in very elderly patients after heart attacks may be responsible for improved survival rates after one year, a new study finds.

More octogenarians are surviving heart attacks, and part of the credit may rest with procedures such as bypass surgery and angioplasty, a new Canadian study suggests.

The prevalence of some chronic diseases like diabetes is greater in Eastern North Carolina than elsewhere in the state and there are also grim statistics for strokes, heart attacks, hypertension and kidney disease, according to a report from The Brody School of Medicine in Greenville.

Today's average sodium intake is several times what the body requires and its long-term effect on our health is very serious. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, affects one in three U.S. adults - nearly 75 million people aged 20 or older. An additional 50 million adults suffer from pre-hypertension. High blood pressure can increase the risk for heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, and ...

Using the common blood thinning drug warfarin to prevent blood clots and heart attacks in people who have recently suffered some sort of traumatic injury can be deadly, a new study has found.Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center studied more than one million trauma patients who were treated with warfarin at the time of their injuries. They found such patients were more likely to die compared to trauma patients who were not taking the drug at the time of their traumatic injury, ac