Rates of heart disease among women are higher than men, which is why women need to keep up with heart health even more.

Less than 10 percent of heart and lung surgeons in the United States are women. At a recent conference, they vowed to change that. More than 230 people attended the second annual meeting of Women in ...

On Go Red for Women Day, know your heart disease risk factors, signs of disease to prevent No. 1 cause of death for women.

Criteria for who should get heart surgery and when are based primarily on research in men, but two studies suggest this leads ...

Heart disease affects women differently than men, and understanding those differences can be lifesaving. Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist and leading expert in the field of women's ...

Women’s cardiovascular health has long been overlooked and understudied. Here are some things to keep in mind.

LOS ANGELES, CA—With research showing that women present later and differently with cardiovascular disease—and that they pose unique challenges in the operating room—some experts are calling for more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At one time, heart disease was believed to largely only happen to men, which meant women weren’t included in health studies on the ...

Among patients undergoing cardiac surgery, women are less likely than men to develop postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) after adjustment for other relevant factors, but long-term mortality is ...

Cardiac surgeon Amy Fiedler, MD, stares at the motionless heart below her in an operating room at UC San Francisco’s Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. She’s nearly five hours into a ...