Welcome, comrades, to the "new" USSR — the United States Socialist Republic. ...more

November 9, 2008

ST. AUGUSTINE (AP) - First came the health problems. Then, unable to work, Ada Noda watched the bills pile up. And then, suffocating in debt, the 80-year-old did something she never thought she'd be forced to do. ...more

August 31, 2008

First came the health problems. Then, unable to work, Ada Noda watched the bills pile up. And then, suffocating in debt, the 80-year-old did something she never thought she'd be forced to do. ...more

August 28, 2008

Vice President Dick Cheney got good news Saturday from doctors who said his heart was beating normally for a 67-year-old man who has had four heart attacks. ...more

July 13, 2008

a treatment for obesity that is known to reduce heart disease and diabetes - decreases the incidence of cancer by 80 percent during the five years after the procedure, Canadian researchers reported Wednesday. ...more

June 19, 2008

Dear Abby: Last year, my husband, "Steve," was scheduled for bypass surgery. He told everyone - all our friends and relatives - that he planned to stop smoking afterward. ...more

May 18, 2008

Bypass surgery remains the best option for heart patients with more than one clogged artery, according to the first big study to compare bypass with drug-coated stents. ...more

January 24, 2008

TAMPA - Mostafa Ahmed felt the pain in his chest and his hands. He called his boss, closed the gas station where he worked and rushed to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital. ...more

November 22, 2007

Under pressure from government regulators around the world, Bayer Pharmaceuticals announced Monday it is suspending global sales of a drug widely used to control bleeding during heart surgery after a study found patients receiving the medication were at increased risk of dying. ...more

November 6, 2007