New York - Children should be screened for heart problems with an electrocardiogram before getting drugs like Ritalin to treat hyperactivity and attention-deficit disorder, the American Heart ...

All I ever learned about the heart exam I learned in the second year of medical school. "I jokingly say, 'All I ever learned about the heart exam I learned in the second year of medical school,' " ...

WITH the advent of cardiac catheterization and operative procedures for correction of valvular deformities it has become increasingly important for the pathologist to attempt, from post-mortem ...

Protected by the sternum and the ribcage, your heart sits comfortably in the center of your chest. It weighs less than 1 pound and beats about 100,000 times per day. That is 36,500,000 times each year ...

A group of cardiologists recently had a proposition for Dr. Andrew Rosenblatt, who runs a busy heart clinic in San Francisco: Would he join them in buying a CT scanner, a $1 million machine that ...

Factors linked to heart problems, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and bad cholesterol levels, can start years, ...