heart patients

CHICAGO (AP) -- Good news: Sex is safe for most heart patients. If you're healthy enough to walk up two flights of stairs without chest pain or gasping for breath, you can have a love life....

People who have recently been hospitalized for a heart attack or the severe chest pain of angina may live longer if they take the new anticlotting pill Xarelto in addition to standard therapy, a large study shows.

A disturbing number of people with heart problems who shouldn't be prescribed standard migraine medications called triptans are given the drugs anyway, researchers say.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Landmark research that should have changed the way doctors treat millions of heart patients with clogged arteries has had little effect - many still don't first try medicines that sometimes eliminate the need for costly, invasive procedures, a study suggests....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Eating more heart-healthy omega-3 fats provided no additional benefit in a study of heart attack survivors who were already getting good care, Dutch researchers report....

Men with heart disease who also complain of erectile dysfunction die sooner than other male heart patients, researchers reported.

(DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) World-class computing at ORNL could be unleashed to save as much as $50 billion per year in fraud, waste and abuse in the nation's health care system.

Thousands of cancer and heart patients will benefit from a new ORNL program to make rhenium-188 generators more widely available.

Scientists studying internal details of virtually any material they don't want to destroy may soon be able to use a new technique developed by researchers at ORNL.

LONDON (AP) -- Heart patients who catch the flu may have more to worry about than just a fever or the sniffles: the virus could also spark a heart attack, new research shows....

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Working up a sweat may be even better than angioplasty for some heart patients, experts say....

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- A new drug to prevent blood clots in heart patients reduced their chances of dying by more than 20 percent compared to the standard treatment, new research says....