According to the CDC, in the United States, someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds. That adds up to more than 800,000 ...

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital uncovered that an immune defense protein, Resistin-like molecule gamma, attacks heart cells after a heart attack—literally punching holes in them. This ...

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 ...

After a heart attack, the body’s immune system rushes to repair damaged tissue. But new research from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) shows that this same defense response can backfire—with fatal ...

Today, advances in emergency medicine enable rapid diagnosis and intervention, early enough to save the lives of people. However, when these opportunities are missed or rather ignored, the ...

Heart attack and heart failure are two distinct but often confused cardiovascular conditions. A heart attack occurs suddenly when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked, causing tissue ...

Each October, Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Awareness Month reminds us of a sobering reality: nearly 1,000 people in the United States suffer a sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital every day. Of ...