If you have heart disease and you are having or want to have sex, questions and anxieties almost always arise. Reduced sexual desire and avoidance of sexual activity are the most common problems encountered by heart patients. These problems can be compounded by drug therapy, depression and fear by the patient — or his or her partner — that sex will bring on a heart attack, rhythm disturbance or other cardiac abnormality. ...more

February 8, 2008

Bypass surgery remains the best option for heart patients with more than one clogged artery, according to the first big study to compare bypass with drug-coated stents. ...more

January 24, 2008

There have been times over the past five years when I have felt I've consumed more pills than Kurt Cobain by way of Keith Richards - and I haven't had even one halfway decent hallucination. ...more

January 17, 2008

A popular cholesterol-lowering drug failed to help slow the buildup of artery-clogging plaque in a long-awaited study, the companies that market the medication said Monday, raising questions about whether its use should be limited. ...more

January 15, 2008

Just because you're in the hospital doesn't mean you'll quickly get treated if your heart stops beating. About one-third of patients don't get a potentially lifesaving shock within the recommended two minutes, a new study found. ...more

January 3, 2008

Looking at your waistline and wishing you could turn back time? ...more

December 28, 2007

Americans may be too fat, but at least their cholesterol is low. For the first time in nearly 50 years, the average cholesterol level for U.S. adults is in the ideal range, the government reported Wednesday. ...more

December 13, 2007

Those lords-a-leaping and ladies dancing might want to consider the downside of the holidays: Heart attack season has arrived. ...more

December 4, 2007

Abraham Lincoln was the rarest of men, and John G. Sotos thinks that extended all the way to his chromosome 10. ...more

November 30, 2007

TAMPA - Mostafa Ahmed felt the pain in his chest and his hands. He called his boss, closed the gas station where he worked and rushed to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital. ...more

November 22, 2007