Everyone with high blood pressure, about 72 million Americans, should own a home monitor and do regular pressure checks, the American Heart Association and other groups urged Thursday in an unprecedented endorsement of a medical device for consumers. ...more

May 23, 2008

Aggressively lowering blood pressure in the early hours of a bleeding stroke can limit its severity, a preliminary study found, giving hope of a major advance in treating this often fatal problem. ...more

February 23, 2008

A 43-year old man visited several doctors and the emergency room complaining of difficulty breathing. He was diagnosed as having allergy with sinusitis, and then bronchitis. Neither Benadryl nor a prescribed inhaler helped. It was challenging for him to climb stairs, and he couldn't do his carpentry work. ...more

February 22, 2008

I'm a wife and mother of two, with three grandchildren. I've always loved to eat, so I've had a weight problem at all times of my life. In 1997, I developed a thyroid problem. It was so overactive it affected my heart. It took the doctors more than a year to get my medications right. That's when I gained all my weight. ...more

February 15, 2008

Living to 100 is easier than you might think. Surprising research suggests that even people who develop heart disease or diabetes late in life have a decent shot at reaching the century mark. ...more

February 12, 2008

For Maria "Charo" Cruz, snoring was as much a part of sleeping as a soft pillow and comfortable bed. ...more

February 8, 2008

If you have heart disease and you are having or want to have sex, questions and anxieties almost always arise. Reduced sexual desire and avoidance of sexual activity are the most common problems encountered by heart patients. These problems can be compounded by drug therapy, depression and fear by the patient — or his or her partner — that sex will bring on a heart attack, rhythm disturbance or other cardiac abnormality. ...more

February 8, 2008

When most people talk about major surgery they have undergone, they do so with painful cringes and relief that it's over. But when Glenn Davis talks about his gastric bypass surgery, he has enthusiasm. ...more

February 6, 2008

It has been 28 years since the Miracle on Ice, 28 years since goalie Jim Craig skated around the ice in Lake Placid, N.Y., with a U.S. flag draped over his shoulders as he searched the stands and mouthed, "Where's my father?" ...more

January 30, 2008

C.J. Huffman, 29, New Port Richey ...more

January 25, 2008