Austin Public Health looks at 10 years worth of mortality data by disease, gender and race in new chronic disease report.

One in three adults in the U.S. has three or more risk factors for a newly recognized but increasingly common condition: ...

Light exposure at night may disrupt our body's internal clocks, or circadian rhythms, that keep physiological processes ...

A common habit may be increasing your risk of heart disease, heart failure and stroke, a study suggests. Researchers found ...

Public health physicians have revealed that people who live alone or experience prolonged social isolation face a higher risk ...

Women with type 2 diabetes are nearly twice as likely as men to have hidden heart damage, according to a study by University ...

In 1970, ischemic heart disease—mostly heart attacks—accounted for 91% of heart-related deaths. Today, that number has fallen ...

Discover 5 dangerous diseases directly linked to alcohol consumption. Learn how drinking affects your liver, heart, brain, and increases cancer risk.

Doctors have long called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) “the great masquerader. ” It hides in plain sight, often mistaken ...

A new study has found that eating more green vegetables daily could help prevent heart disease in older adults.

Five common reasons why people have heart attacks by understanding the everyday factors that can trigger a life-threatening ...

Since 1970, heart attack deaths have fallen almost 90 per cent in the US, though deaths from chronic heart conditions have ...