The Latest Breaking News from Heart Disease

Shift work means businesses and organisations can be productive for 24-hours a day, but workers are more at risk of disease and death.

Shift work means businesses and organisations can be productive for 24-hours a day. It was initially adopted to protect camps or cities against predators, enemies or disasters.

Yet another study has found that people with a strong purpose in life have less heart disease and are much less likely to die early.

In high-income countries such as Denmark and the Netherlands, pregnancy is comparatively safe. But maternal deaths still happen and in places like the UK are increasing. Understanding why is important, not only for the family a woman leaves behind but for the services who provided her care and society more…

Epidemiologist whose research into the role of blood in heart disease paved the way for new targeted treatments

Stacey was left unable to hold her new son weeks after he was born when he was diagnosed with heart disease

The study's findings provide hope opticians on our high streets could screen for the disease and ultimately prevent cardiac arrests among those affected by the eye condition

According to a recent study from the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, patients with a particular type of age-related macular degeneration (shoppingmode AMD), the main cause of blindness in the United States. Read on for details:

Initiative comes from a local authority whose area's life expectancy is falling, with heart disease and diabetes on the rise

Toxic air was once a silent killer. No longer. We have known for some time that long-term exposure to human-made pollution — from transport, industry and heating — is linked to strokes, heart disease and lung cancer. The annual mortality rate is roughly 30,000 a year.

World-first pilot in England helps identify those who could be offered statins, who would otherwise be ‘invisible’ to NHS