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Study Highlights: In a preliminary trial, an experimental drug safely boosted levels of "good" HDL cholesterol while lowering the "bad" LDL cholesterol associated with the development of...

Study Highlights: If "bad" LDL cholesterol was well-controlled with medication, adding high doses of niacin didn't further lower the risk of heart attack or stroke in stable patients with...

DALLAS, Nov. 15, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Heart Association (AHA) and Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons,...

ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 14, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NOTE: ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN. ALL TIPS ARE EMBARGOED UNTIL TIME OF PRESENTATION OR 4 P.M. ET EACH DAY, WHICHEVER COMES FIRST. For more information Nov....

Advisory Highlights: Cardiac rehabilitation is vastly underused because of barriers to patients, especially for women, minorities and people with lower socioeconomic status Cardiac...

Study Highlights: In an animal study of acute coronary syndrome, a targeted nanoparticle gelatin-based treatment dissolved significantly more blood clots than a currently used drug. The...

Study Highlights: Older adults with low income are at increased risk for heart failure. Income status better predicts who develops heart failure than education level. Despite Medicare...

Study Highlights: In an animal study, stem cells from the placenta migrated to injured tissue in the mother's heart during pregnancy. The cells then became a range of cardiac cell...

ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 14, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Regardless of presentation date and time, all four abstracts will have the same embargo release at 2 p.m. ET, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. For more...

Study Highlights: High frequency radio waves that destroy electrical triggers in the heart (a treatment called radiofrequency ablation) worked as well as or better than drugs to treat patients...