Heart Health Features
Expert Q&A: What’s New in Heart Disease Prevention
- What I Wish I Had Known Before Having a Heart Attack
These survivors' stories have valuable lessons you can take away for your own heart health.
- How Job Stress Affects Your Heart
What's the connection between job stress and your heart's health? And what you can do to minimize those risks?
- Stem Cells Healing Hearts
WebMD reports on a clinical trial using patients' own heart stem cells to help heal their heart failure after heart attack.
- Heart Stem Cell Study: Researcher's Perspective
WebMD interviews the University of Louisville's Roberto Bolli, MD, on his heart stem cell research to help treat heart failure after heart attack.
- Caring for Someone With Heart Disease
Are you caring for someone with heart disease? Find tips and strategies for caregivers.
- Amazing Facts About Heart Health and Heart Disease
Do you know much your heart weighs? How often your heart beats? Read on to learn little-known – but truly amazing – facts about the human heart.
- 10 Ways to Protect Your Heart From the Tolls of Recession
The wild stock market ride, rising foreclosure rates, and increasing layoffs may give you a queasy feeling in your stomach, but it’s your heart that is really at increased risk during the recession.
- Top Heart Health Stories of 2008: Readers' Choice
The 10 most viewed heart-related stories on WebMD for 2008.
- Three Heart-Healthy Makeovers
Three at-risk people who turned their heart health around.
- Test Your Atherosclerosis Smarts
Take WebMD's five-minute quiz to see just how much you understand about atherosclerosis and heart disease.
- Imaging the Heart: The New Frontier
New advances in MRIs, CT scans and echocardiography reveal the mysteries of the malfunctioning heart.
- Key Numbers for Heart Health
Your blood pressure, cholesterol, and waist size can forecast your risk for heart disease. Here's how to get those numbers where you want them.
- A Vacation Away Keeps the Doctor at Bay
Surveys Show Americans Don't Use Their Leave Time