While heart disease has been the leading cause of death in the U.S. for over a century, the past 50 years have seen a ...

Heart attacks are no longer the leading cause of heart disease-related death, but deaths from heart disease have still been responsible for more U.S. fatalities than any other cause, a new American ...

A new study highlights a sharp decline in deaths from heart attacks, while showing a significant rise in mortality from other heart conditions.

Lucian Leape, MD, considered by many to be the father of the patient safety movement, died Monday in Lexington, Massachusetts ...

In 1970, ischemic heart disease—mostly heart attacks—accounted for 91% of heart-related deaths. Today, that number has fallen ...

A study from Stanford shows that heart attack deaths fell 89 percent from 1970-2022 while chronic heart disease deaths rose ...

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The data, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, analyzed over 37 million heart disease deaths spanning ...

Teen dancer survives rare heart condition that’s the second leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young athletes.

Disrupted care during the COVID-19 pandemic led to sharp increases in other non-COVID causes of illness and death, ...

U.S. heart disease mortality has dropped 66% since 1970, mainly due to fewer ischemic heart disease deaths. However, deaths ...

A patient of jailed surgeon Ian Paterson who died might have had the wrong cause of death recorded, the disgraced medic told ...