The number of heart attack deaths has plummeted in the U.S. over the course of the last half-century. Doctors have tied the remarkable shift to improved detection and more effective treatment for ...

February is American Heart Month. In the United States, a baby is born with a congenital heart defect (CHD) every 15 minutes. Affecting nearly 1 in 100 babies, CHDs include a wide range of structural ...

They aren’t all sudden or intense, experts says. By Jancee Dunn I had a relative who experienced chest pain one afternoon. He brushed it off, and said that he’d sleep on it and that if he still felt ...

Internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, looks at the signs of heart disease you can see. Following is a partial transcript of the video (note that errors are possible): ...

Although you may not think of children when you imagine someone with heart problems, congenital heart defects are actually the most common birth defect in the U.S., occurring in about 1% of births.

(WTRF) – Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, but doctors say many people don’t recognize the early warning signs until a major event happens. The problems can start ...