A study found that a new online calculator can determine a young adult's 30-year risk of heart disease, hopefully leading to ...

Nearly half of people who go on to have a heart attack are classified as low-risk by current calculators, revealing a ...

New research unveiled at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions highlights emerging strategies to prevent heart ...

Regular heart-friendly habits significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks. Simple changes like walking after meals, ...

Every August, primary care doctors stock their clinics with influenza vaccines and start reminding patients to get their annual shot. We usually tell patients, “The flu vaccine can reduce your risk of ...

A new study suggests that widely used risk calculators may overlook many people who are only days away from a heart attack.

A low dose of colchicine — a commonly used gout drug — helped reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in people with ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Over 80 percent of heart attacks could have been prevented with early detection of heart disease, yet most people are never tested for it. Victoria Dupuy, founder and CEO of No ...

Anti-obesity medication semaglutide may help to prevent heart attacks and other major cardiac events regardless of how much weight people lose while taking the drug, according to a new study led by a ...

Current cardiac screening tools used to prevent heart attacks fail to identify nearly half of the people who are actually at ...