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• Act fast on chest pain to preserve heart
Quick treatment needed for common, severe attack

• Air pollution linked to heart disease
Soot from traffic is a serious risk factor, study concludes

• Another artificial heart implanted
Patient in critical but stable condition

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• Should cholesterol drugs go over-the-counter?

• Gene variant may reduce risk of heart problems

• Study: Blacks, high blood pressure

• Study: Cholesterol levels change with seasons

• Heart disease an overlooked global problem

• Off-pump heart bypass surgery effective

• Hormone may cut risk of heart attack

• Girl who received heart pump implant dies

• Heart patients have shorter hospital stays

• Defibrillators now required on airliners

• Inside the 'first family' of heart disease

• New drug may fight deadly heart rhythm

• New drug may boost good cholesterol

• In an emergency, skip mouth-to-mouth

• Software may predict heart attack risk

• Latest heart disease test may not be helpful

• New treatment for congestive heart failure

• Stress can trigger fatal heart rhythm

• Moderate drinking may lower heart death risk

• Medicare may cover implanted defibrillators

• FDA advisors recommend artificial heart

• Questions remain about artificial heart

• Women's heart attacks tied to blood pressure

• Women get less aggressive heart treatment

• Cutting cholesterol improves heart attack odds

• Drug-coated stents aid in angioplasty

• Folate may reduce heart disease, strokes

• Group seeks ban on cholesterol drug

• Tantrums linked to male heart problems

• Home blood pressure tests may have benefits

• Ten grams of fiber daily cuts heart risks

• Study may lead to new cholesterol drugs

• Cholesterol drugs may fight heart failure

• Chocolate gets to the heart of the matter

• Deadly gene linked to heart attacks

• New guidelines on women and heart disease

• New marker may help identify heart risks

• Melatonin may lower blood pressure

• Drug may boost cardiac arrest survival

• New risks associated with bypass surgery

• Air pollution increases heart risks

• Blood protein linked to hypertension

• FDA against broader aspirin use

• Aspirin found cost-effective for heart

• First heart attack gene found

• Statins may soon be sold over counter

• Hidden stress underlies heart attacks

• Public defibrillators saving lives

• Body’s own cells can repair heart

• Doctors fail to give basic heart care

• Ephedra diet pill may raise heart risk

• Improving heart health for the poor

• Is chemical a sign of heart disease?

• New surgery may help heart ailment

• Fatigue an early sign of heart attack?

• Caring for grandkids

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