The death of Tim Russert is teaching us a lot about the mechanics of sudden heart attack. First, we're all right to be paranoid. There are roughly 1.2 million heart attacks a year in the U.S., over ...

It’s never a good moment for disaster to strike, but the timing of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was particularly unfortunate for one of the region’s most commercially valuable ...

Simon Keith is, literally, a walking miracle. In 1989, the former soccer standout for at UNLV, made history by becoming the first heart transplant recipient to play professional sports. Keith was the ...

Last week, the American College of Cardiology, whose marketing skills approach those of the pharmaceutical industry, provided a stage for clinical trial results comparing ways to prevent heart attacks ...