heart attacks

Individuals who smoked marijuana daily had a 25 percent increased risk of heart attack and a 42 percent higher risk of stroke.

Discover the effects of holiday stress on your heart and learn easy ways to enjoy festivities safely, avoiding Holiday Heart Syndrome.

The study followed 157,000 adults for 45 months. None of the participants had heart failure when they enrolled in the program.

New study challenges perceptions, demonstrating traditional remedy’s impact on cardiac recovery.

A Virginia man celebrated the completion of a race he started 50 days ago on Sunday. Bill Hughes had participated in the Ukrop’s Monument Avenue 10K race last month, but suffered a cardiac arrest in the middle of the race.

Noninvasive CT scans are far better at finding clogged arteries that can trigger a heart attack than the exercise stress tests most chest pain patients take, research shows.

Modern medical practice is engaged in a battle, not for hearts and minds, but for the conversion of perfectly healthy people into patients.

Related to a Monster Beverage lawsuit, doctors hired by the company have said the drink did not cause the death of a 14-year-old girl.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that Monster Energy drinks have been linked to the deaths of at least five and to one nonlethal heart attack.

Tasers, the electronic stun guns commonly used by law enforcement, can cause cardiac arrest and death, according to a recent study published in the American Heart Association journal, Circulation.