Science News
The Moral of the Zetia Story
LDL is only called bad cholesterol because we call it that. 01.24.2008
The Perfect Storm of Health Risk
In some situations, rare illnesses become downright probable. 12.19.2007
Can We Cure Aging?
Controlling inflammation could be the key to a healthy old age. 12.04.2007
Hormone Therapy: Sooner, Later, or Not at All?
Sorting out the cloudy issue that is estrogen replacement 06.11.2007
Heart Disease: The Diabetes Link
Obesity cuts to the heart with a double-edged sword. 05.02.2007
Vital Signs: Potassium Overload
Funky fruit can be fatal. 03.13.2007
Vital Signs: Why is He Fainting?
Mysterious fainting spells signal a deadly emergency for a middle-aged man. 11.16.2006
Weightlifting Death Risk
Gym rats beware: Heavy lifting may put you at risk of sudden death. 07.18.2006
Young at Heart
Protein returns youth to cardiac muscle. 02.28.2006
Vital Signs: What's That Noise In Her?
A diagnostician facing his own medical troubles tracks down a killer defect. 01.17.2006
Can Stem Cells Save Dying Hearts?
Just ask this pig 09.09.2005
Discover Dialogue: Physician Nortin Hadler
Bypass surgery belongs in the medical archives . . . No Western European nation has as high a rate of bypass surgery and angioplasty as we do—and they live longer 06.05.2005
Circulation Booster
01.02.2005
Vital Signs
Evaluating fussiness in a baby is tricky, but a heart rate of 220 is not ambiguous 08.02.2004
Discover Data
08.02.2004
Medicine
01.02.2004
The Greatest Unanswered Questions of Medical Science
Where the money and brainpower will go in the next decade 12.03.2003
Technology for Humanity: Robert Fischell
The Inventor Who Saved 65,000 Lives 11.09.2003
Vital Signs
Was this a simple case of pneumonia or something much worse? 02.01.2003
Vital Signs
Ultrasound uncovers a lethal choke hold on the heart 03.01.2002
Medicine
Year In Science 01.13.2002
Future Tech
A unique way to save your brain during a heart attack 10.01.2001
Vital Signs
A killer masquerades as back, heart, and leg pain 07.01.2001
Vital Signs
This time it showed up as dizziness and shortness of breath. But it could have appeared as fever, weight loss, or joint pains 03.01.2001
Vital Signs
The patient's symptoms resembled a backache, but their cause might prove far more deadly 01.01.2001
Vital Signs
This pump's electrical system is as finely crafted as a microchip 08.01.2000
Future Tech
Cholesterol-lowering snacks and veggie vaccines blur the boundaries between nutrition and drugs 03.01.2000
Vital Signs
When is a cardiac patient's abnormality perfectly normal after all? 03.01.2000
When Pills Kill
Her pulse was close to stopping. Was it the drugs she was taking? 08.01.1999
Vital Signs
Her pulse was close to stopping. Was it the drugs she was taking? 08.01.1999
Lethal Snoring
07.01.1999
A Vaccine Worth Taking
07.01.1999
One-Minute Cholesterol Test
One-Minute Cholesterol Test 07.01.1999
Making Waves
10.01.1998
Vital Signs: Heart Smarts
I knew just the right drug to calm my patient's racing heart. I just had no proof it would work. 06.01.1998
The Year in Science: Medicine 1997
Backward Blood 01.01.1998
The Benefits of Bleeding
12.01.1997
Hearts and Minds
12.01.1997
Heart Art
11.01.1997
The Price of Life
09.01.1997
Mysteries of the Heart
No one knows why a puzzling growth sometimes chokes off the blood vessels that embrace the heart, or who is most susceptible to it. But a seemingly harmless--and nearly ubiquitous--virus may provide a valuable clue. 07.01.1997
Piece of My Heart
01.01.1997
Life Kills
11.01.1996
A Digital Heart
11.01.1996
Touching the Heart
06.01.1996
Vital Signs: No Surrender
11.01.1995
Hearts and Minds
05.01.1995
One Step Ahead
04.01.1994
The Body Electric
New computer models reveal patterns that spring back from the heart. 02.01.1993
A Will to Die
12.01.1992
Present Tense
08.01.1992
The Hearty Fisherman
07.01.1992
Wired in Space
A Texas cardiologist goes into Orbit with 29 rats, 2,478 jellyfish, and a plastic tube snaking through his veins to the entrance of his pounding heart. 04.01.1992