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Air Pollution May Increase Your Risk of Heart Attack

Getty Images Smog isn't just bad for the planet. A new study shows that exposure to air pollution significantly increases the risk of ... Read More »

Diet Pill Contrave Rejected by FDA

Alamy Weight loss drug Contrave has yet to receive approval from the Food and Drug Administration, which said the product must first address ... Read More »

Keeping Your Heart Healthy After 40

Holly St. Lifer Four years ago, Theresa Volpe, a young mom with two daughters, knew she was out of shape. The only exercise she got was running ... Read More »

The Salty Side: Sodium May Instantly Damage Your Arteries

Getty A new study may have you thinking twice before you pop open a bag of potato chips or supersize a French fries order. The study found ... Read More »

Detroit Marathon Deaths: Experts Weigh in on the Risk of Running

Photo: Susan Tusa, Detroit Free Press / MCT People who run the 26.2 miles of a marathon or the 13.1 miles of a half-marathon are presumably in ... Read More »

In 2009, Resolve to Sleep In

I'm willing to venture a guess that very few of us can claim to get enough sleep. I don't know about you but I am just too freakin' busy to always get ... Read More »

U.S. diabetics having less heart problems

On a subject I hit on a few days ago, diabetics and the potential for heart problems are highly correlated if you've looked into current research on ... Read More »

DON'T lose weight after a heart attack?

Ugh, gotta love contradicting health information these days! Seems like it's everywhere, including cardiac health and heart attacks. Where the usual ... Read More »

Indoor smoking bans reduce heart attacks

Second-hand smoke is dangerous. According to the U.S. Surgeon General, nonsmokers breathing the haze potentially face a 30 percent increased risk for ... Read More »

Vioxx's heart attack risk under the microscope

Vioxx was taken off the market years ago based on a connection to heart attacks and related ailments. Soon thereafter, pain drugs in general were ... Read More »