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Health Katherine Gilyard

Study: religious practice, spirituality can improve Black Americans’ cardiovascular health

Health Tech Casey Ross

At Mayo Clinic, AI engineers face an ‘acid test’: Will their algorithms help real patients?

Health Ruth Hailu

Patients whose blood pressure only spikes at the doctor’s office are twice as likely to die of a heart attack or other cardiac event

Health Shraddha Chakradhar

Former NFL players die at a faster rate than other professional athletes, study finds

First Opinion Robert M. Kaplan

Preventing heart disease requires more than medicine

First Opinion Larry Husten

Beware the hype over the Apple Watch heart app. The device could do more harm than good

Health Usha Lee McFarling

Kale crackers and hibiscus tea: My five days on a ‘fasting diet’

Health Eric Boodman

Capybara and eight-hour hunts: Why Bolivian hunter-gatherers have the healthiest arteries

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Health Jayne Williamson-Lee

Women and men are different, cardiovascular edition

Health Isabella Cueto

Coffee? Keto? Olive Oil? New tool surfaces science behind diet and habits

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Biotech Damian Garde

STAT Plus: Data show strong results for Alnylam therapy for heart disease, but magnitude of benefit will stir debate

Health Tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: An ambitious stroke prevention study tests the Apple Watch’s promise in health

In the Lab Elizabeth Cooney

New research digs into the genetic drivers of heart failure, with an eye to precision treatments

Biotech Damian Garde

STAT Plus: Alnylam therapy for increasingly common heart disease succeeds in closely watched trial

The Readout LOUD Damian Garde and Adam Feuerstein

Listen: CRISPR for the heart, biotech’s recovery, & what it means to be a ‘hot girl’

Biotech Matthew Herper and Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: Verve Therapeutics begins human tests of first ‘base editor,’ aiming at heart disease

Biotech Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: New analysis of Amarin’s Vascepa resurrects big questions about effectiveness

Health Akila Muthukumar

STAT Plus: Popular drug may have new benefit in men with diabetes, but not women, study shows

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: High blood pressure pills are costly — but also hard to find — in some lower-income countries

Matt's Take Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: Robert Califf is a fervent believer in data. At the FDA, will that be enough?

Special Report Damian Garde

STAT Plus: It’s the cardiovascular version of Alzheimer’s — and, for a biotech with a promising drug, it could be a windfall

Health Lindsey Tanner — Associated Press

Advice shifting on aspirin use for preventing heart attacks

Health Elizabeth Cooney

‘Information alone is not enough’: New Jackson Heart Study leader commits to putting research into action

Health Tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: With Apple’s backing, can an app help heart attack patients navigate recovery?

In the Lab Kevin Lin

Scientists devise a battery-free pacemaker that can be absorbed by the body

In the Lab Megan Molteni

STAT Plus: Gene therapy to regenerate cardiac muscle after a heart attack passes a key test in pigs

First Opinion Cynthia A. Stuenkel and JoAnn E. Manson

Are five decades of progress in women’s health in peril?

In the Lab Shraddha Chakradhar

In new study, stem cells self-organize into a mini model of a beating heart

Health Tech Casey Ross

STAT Plus: AI caught a hidden problem in one patient’s heart. Can it work for others?

Health Usha Lee McFarling

When a cardiologist flagged the lack of diversity at premier medical journals, the silence was telling

Health Rebecca Sohn

Substance use, suicide, and cardiometabolic conditions drive rise in working-age mortality, report finds

Health Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: Challenging the link between statins and muscle pain, patients report no difference in aches when taking drug or placebo

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: FDA scientists say J&J Covid-19 shot is effective; vaccine makers predict big jump in deliveries this month