About 6 million people each year go to hospitals with chest pain, but only a small fraction are truly having a heart attack.

You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies.

About 5 million Americans have heart failure, which occurs when the heart weakens over time and cannot pump enough blood.

A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin — drugs that are still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the outbreak was first reported at a boys camp in Sullivan County, N.Y.

The old way of performing heart bypass surgery may be better than the new way.

Microsoft is developing a camera called SenseCam, which automatically captures photos of everything you see and do all day.

The company's procedure, called bronchial thermoplasty, uses extreme heat to burn away lung tissue that makes it difficult to breath and causes coughing spasms

Younger women are getting a disease that usually strikes around menopause -- and no one knows why.

Popular stun-gun maker Taser International is asking police to think before they tase someone in the chest.

A sperm donor passed on a potentially deadly genetic heart condition to nine of his 24 children, including one who died at age 2 from heart failure, according

Most hospitalized heart failure patients are sent home without widely recommended inexpensive pills, despite a program to get more doctors to follow treatment

The insurance industry uses facts selectively and mixes accurate assertions with misleading spin and an embrace of worst-case scenarios.

Lots of work remains before trying that dramatic an experiment in people. But regenerating damaged heart muscle is a holy grail in cardiac care.

A new type of CPR is saving lives Arizona, and could soon find its way to your area.