Browsing: Heart

If you’ve been putting off a root canal, you may want to schedule that appointment. That’s because new evidence suggests…

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Tailored vitamin D3 supplementation for heart attack patients may halve their risk of a second heart attack, according to new…

Crystalline forms of cholesterol (blue) in a liver cell (purple), imaged using a scanning electron microscope.Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo LibraryA…

In the United States, someone has a heart attack nearly every 40 seconds1. That’s over 800,000 individuals a year, 200,000…

A new study has experts cautiously excited about the potential benefits of vitamin D supplementation for people living with heart…

What happened after publicationIn this paper by Attar and colleagues (BMJ 2025;391:e083382, doi:10.1136/bmj-2024-083382, published 29 October 2025), The BMJ was…

Credit: PeopleImages/Getty Images Women who experience hypertensive disorders of pregnancy have significantly increased risk of developing serious heart disease or…

Women’s hearts deserve their own playbook

A new study links long-term melatonin use to higher heart failure risk and death risk.The study is preliminary and doesn’t…