A heart attack is a medical emergency that requires an immediate call to the emergency services. However, there are sometimes ...

Cardiologists have long warned that heart attacks and strokes rarely arrive without some kind of signal, yet those signals ...

Catching the signs early increases the chances of surviving a heart attack, but the most vital part is being able to identify when one is happening and remembering five key steps. This guide will help ...

Almost all people who suffer from a heart attack have at least one risk factor beforehand that exceeds healthy levels, new research has found. In a study, published in the Journal of the American ...

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 ...

Heart attack treatment: The number of heart attacks has increased rapidly in the past few years. Let's take a look at the number of cases reported in a week and what measures should be taken to ...

One night, Lindsay Shanks sat up from bed and felt a sharp pain. “It felt like someone stabbed me right between my shoulder blades,” said Shanks, who was 37 at the time. “My hands started tingling, ...

The risk of having a heart attack or stroke rises during the holiday season, with a spike in cardiac deaths between Christmas and New Year's. "We definitely see it in the ER over the holidays," says ...

There's lots of data to show cardiac troubles spike during the holidays amid the mix of merrymaking, travel and stress. But there are ways to spot the signs of trouble before it's too late. The risk ...