New guidelines for managing cholesterol call for more aggressive prevention and earlier treatment, including a recommendation that all adults be tested once for lipoprotein(a), a genetic risk marker ...

Eleven medical organizations advised changes to preventive cardiac care that it says could markedly reduce heart attacks and strokes.

Women with certain cardiometabolic risk factors face a greater increase in risk for liver fibrosis than men with the same ...

There is a common complaint among medical educators: the medical school curriculum is "too crowded." New topics keep showing up, but where to put them? As ethics and quality improvement and "shared ...

Milestone procedure gives young father with advanced heart failure a new heart and new future with his family.

An area couple is sharing their experience with open-heart surgery to raise awareness about the importance of calcium scoring tests. Odie and Karen Lawhun underwent open-heart surgery within months of ...

A research team from the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has developed an innovative AI-based cardiovascular risk ...

Women with certain cardiometabolic risk factors, including type 2 diabetes and high waist circumference, face a greater increase in risk for liver ...

COLUMBUS, GA, UNITED STATES, March 3, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- OBGYN Specialists of Columbus is helping women better ...

It may seem overwhelming, but committee chair Karen Joynt Maddox says small changes may help turn things around.

It often starts with exposure to information — sometimes through direct-to-consumer drug advertisements. That reality stands in contrast to a recent New York Times piece examining pharmaceutical ads.

The American Heart Association recently published an updated algorithm for quantifying cardiovascular health (CVH)—the Life’s Essential 8 score. We quantified US levels of CVH using the new score.