LONDON - Even without modern-day temptations like fast food or cigarettes, people had clogged arteries some 4,000 years ago, according to the biggest-...

Less salt in our food supply could save at least half a million Americans from dying prematurely over the next ten years, according to separate studie...

By Helen Vong for TheSkiny.com Now that Valentine’s Day is over, show your heart some love by eating a salmon meal this weekend. With February be...

Dr. Oz, "America's Doctor," burns my biscuits. Recently, he and homeopath Bryce Wylde offered up what they consider to be the next revolutionary anti-aging super-food: red palm fruit oil. Red palm oil does look like a promising dietary supplement, but the miraculous anti-aging promises by Oz and Wylde never materialize in the data. We just don't have the evidence yet.

CHICAGO - Unemployment hurts more than your wallet — it may damage your heart. That's according to a study linking joblessness with heart attacks in...

One of the world's longest living heart transplant recipients says heart disease is no longer a death sentence. Speaking to teens that ha...

TORONTO - A new Canadian study is shedding light on what its authors call "the causes of the causes" of heart disease around the globe.The risk factor...

TORONTO - A study that looked at the number of new cases of heart failures in Ontario over a decade suggests the rates of incidence have dropped signi...

Canadian researchers who studied the number of Ontario residents diagnosed with heart failure over a decade conclude that incidence rates declined dra...

A growing preference for Western-style fast food in Asian and Southeast Asian countries already shows an impact on their populations' health, and not in a good way, according a newly released study. During the study's 16-year follow-up period, 2,252 participants developed diabetes and 1,397 died of heart attacks or heart-related diseases.

This month, the New England Journal of Medicine published an illustration showing that not only are people now living longer, they are dying of fewer things. However, with this progress, we have also fallen victim to a new subset of maladies. For example, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.

Just call them the Fantastic Five; a group of disease-fighting superfoods that boost energy while helping to vanquish illnesses like diabetes, heart d...

Are you trying to kill me? I'm beating over 100,000 times every single day to keep all systems going. I don't want to brag or anything, but without me you'd be dead. OK, I'll admit the brain is helpful, but it has such a huge ego -- and I'm the one doing all of the work. I'm just not getting any respect.

By Dennis Thompson Jr.; Medically reviewed by Pat F. Bass III, MD, MPH According to a survey by the American Academy of Family Physicians, 38 p...

My clients always ask me, "If there is one thing I can do to better my health, or one food item I can add in that is amazing for me... what is it?" My answer is always greens! For instance, kale is fantastic when it is just lightly steamed or sautéed -- they even make great "chips" (see recipe below).

When you're a non-profit trying to raise awareness of a major health issue, it makes sense to think outside the box. That's the approach the Heart and Stroke Foundation has taken in its new "Make Death Wait" ad campaign. But to me the disembodied male voice sounded like a stalker.

TORONTO - More encouragement for Canadians to watch their waistlines and other health indicators comes from new research suggesting that 19 per cent o...