heart disease

A Cleveland Clinic survey finds that most Americans – including 80 percent of millennials – don’t know heart disease is the leading cause of death for women. Many of the respondents incorrectly thought it was breast cancer.

Deadly heart infections linked to drug use rose nationally from 8 percent to 16 percent from 2002 to 2016, according to a new study from the Cleveland Clinic. The majority of patients with the abuse-related illness were younger, low-income white males on Medicaid. Regionally across the United States, the Midwest saw the largest increases in these cases.

Nearly 100,000 Native Americans live in Ohio, 28% of them in Greater Cleveland. The community includes people from many tribes who arrived here generations ago after the Indian Relocation Act of 1956 encouraged Native Americans to move from reservations to urban areas.

At Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans, researchers are teaching heart disease sufferers what makes a healthy meal — and how to cook one. The program will monitor how this affects readmission rates.

A military-grade vest, using radar technology, may be the answer to keeping some heart patients out of the hospital.The Ohio State University Wexner…

As crazy as it may sound to the non-scientist, cells in a patient's jaw may be able to rejuvenate their bad heart. Yi-Gang Wang, MD, PhD, a professor in...

Overall, U.S. life expectancy dipped in 2015 — the first drop since 1993. That's because the death rate went up between 2014 and 2015, driven by an increase in mortality among people younger than 65.

11:00 Blue Men, and lots of them, are coming to Columbus! And although the Blue Men are supposed to be silent, they're talking to us... A necessity in a…