heart disease

Gut Check By Sharon Begley

Could this widely used calculator be needlessly driving people to take statins?

Quick Take By Leah Samuel

Paging Miss Lonelyhearts: Social isolation boosts risk of cardiac disease

Health By Sharon Begley

Records found in dusty basement undermine decades of dietary advice

Quick Take By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

Disease risk rises for health care workers exposed to radiation on the job

Quick Take By Leah Samuel

Heart attack patients are getting younger — and more obese

Quick Take By Sharon Begley

A little alcohol may not be good for you after all

Quick Take By Leah Samuel

In war on heart disease, Southern states fall far behind

In the Lab By Elie Dolgin

Jewish grandma’s DNA points to new ways of treating heart disease

Quick Take By Leah Samuel

How red meat spurs changes in the gut that can raise heart attack risk

Health By Ike Swetlitz

How moments of pure joy can (literally) break your heart

Health By Dylan Scott

What’s normal for the abnormal? A close look at NBA players’ hearts

Health By Eric Boodman

Some heart trouble with your energy drink?

Lab Chat By Megan Thielking

A protein that helps keep the heart pumping

Pharmalot By Ed Silverman

All wet: Novartis is slammed for ‘alarmist’ ad for heart failure drug

Health By Megan Thielking

Women who have heart attacks fare much worse than men, study finds

First Opinion By Paul D. Thompson

Can you exercise too much?

Health By Leah Samuel

When temperatures drop, deaths rise