Learn more about the importance of palliative care expertise in pre-implant and post-implant management of patients with ventricular assist devices at the end of life.

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It has already been established that more people die from heart attacks than any other condition known to man. More women than men die from it, and more blacks than whites are diagnosed with it. But these are just facts of the number of incidence of heart attacks that we are of aware of.

Indulging in a typical Western diet of burgers, fries, and diet soda boosts your risk of getting heart disease and diabetes, a study shows.

Henry Black talks to Lawrence Appel about the best foods and dietary methods for reducing both hypertension and prehypertension.

Unfortunately, the incidence of heart attack and heart disease is on the rise. Many times, heart disease and heart attacks can be prevented - even when heart disease is hereditary.

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Savaysa works like warfarin but carries less bleeding risk

There's a new study that supports an age-old saying... eating an apple a day is good for you, helping to lower heart disease risk factors. The benefits of apples seems to be a lowering of cholesterol levels and a pair of other key markers that are linked with the formation of plaque and inflamm

CAD is indeed a silent human killer. Although the disease process starts in coronary arteries early in childhood, it continues progressing very gradually through years/decades, and becomes significant enough only later in life, say at the age of 40, or earlier. The reason is that no symptom of the d

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Look closely at this ECG; can you tell whether it's type I or type II second-degree AV block? It's tricky.