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Study Highlights: A heart ultrasound called stress echocardiography helps determine heart attack and death risk in people with HIV and heart disease. People with HIV who have a normal...

Study Highlights: Sleep apnea can cause changes in blood vessel function that reduces blood supply to the heart in people who are otherwise healthy. Continuous positive airway pressure...

DALLAS, July 8, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Study Highlights: A regional network of EMS departments and hospitals used a coordinated plan to cool, then gradually re-warm people who had been...

DALLAS, July 7, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Heart Association applauds the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) for their extensive research....

Study Highlights: Injecting the hearts of untreatable angina patients with their own stem cells reduced chest pain frequency and improved exercise capability. The treatment could offer hope...

DALLAS, July 6, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Heart Association Comment: Putting studies about sodium into perspective The public is understandably confused about the importance of...

Study Highlights: Poorer countries often have disproportionately higher rates of stroke disability and death than wealthier countries. The study authors suggest stroke and heart disease...