Jared Fogle, a spokesman for Subway Restaurants, visited Christ the King Catholic School on Nov. 7 while in Tampa to promote the American Heart Association Heart Walk. He talked to students about healthy living and making good decisions. He also introduced his "big pants" that represent his weight before he lost 245 pounds on a Subway diet. ...more

November 26, 2008

Turns out men and women really are different at heart: New research finds that heart transplant patients have better odds of survival and a lower risk of rejection if they get organs from donors of the same sex. ...more

November 13, 2008

Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside. ...more

November 12, 2008

A shiver of dread went down Ralph Uzzi's spine when the phone rang late one night. ...more

November 12, 2008

People with low cholesterol and no big risk for heart disease had dramatically lower rates of heart attacks, death and stroke if they took the cholesterol pill Crestor, a large study found. ...more

November 10, 2008

Vitamins C and E - pills taken by millions of Americans - do nothing to prevent heart disease in men, one of the largest and longest studies of these supplements has found. ...more

November 10, 2008

People with low cholesterol and no big risk for heart disease dramatically lowered their chances of dying or having a heart attack if they took the cholesterol pill Crestor, a large study found. ...more

November 9, 2008

Joe Biden appears to be very healthy, with some routine aging issues, but there's no evidence he's had a brain scan to completely rule out another aneurysm like the one that required emergency surgery 20 years ago. ...more

October 21, 2008

"Stayin' Alive" might be more true to its name than the Bee Gees ever could have guessed: At 103 beats per minute, the old disco song has almost the perfect rhythm to help jump-start a stopped heart. ...more

October 17, 2008

Heart patients should be regularly screened for signs of depression, the American Heart Association recommended Monday. ...more

September 30, 2008