Heart disease

Breathalyzers, long a tool in police officers' quivers, may be coming soon to a doctor's office near you

A social neuroscientist responds to the controversial critique that the results of imaging studies are routinely overstated.

One man's experience with cognitive impairment after open-heart surgery

Actor John Travolta says that his son, who was found dead last week, suffered from this inflammatory disorder. Did it play a role in the teen's death?

We examine five claims about the benefits of weight lifting and aerobics to see which carry the most...weight

It causes chest pain, heart attack and stroke, leading to more deaths every year than cancer. The long-held conception of how the disease develops turns out to be wrong

Peter Libby, chief of cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, explains what C-reactive protein, one focus of the JUPITER study, may have to do with heart disease

Understanding chronic inflammation, which contributes to heart disease, Alzheimer's and a variety of other ailments, may be a key to unlocking the mysteries of cancer

Are we swallowing toxic elements with every sip of vino?

Healthy aging may be possible with some genetic help

Researchers stave off premature heart failure in mice with genetic disorder

What new Howard Hughes Medical Institute president Robert Tijan said about the activities of our genes in 1995: They are tightly regulated by elaborate complexes of proteins that assemble on DNA. Perturbations in the normal operation of these assemblies can lead to disease