They aren’t all sudden or intense, experts says. By Jancee Dunn I had a relative who experienced chest pain one afternoon. He brushed it off, and said that he’d sleep on it and that if he still felt ...

A new study suggests that more than half of all heart attacks in women under 65 are actually not the result of a clogged artery—which is the most common cause of heart attacks in men. The majority of ...

The number of heart attack deaths has plummeted in the U.S. over the course of the last half-century. Doctors have tied the remarkable shift to improved detection and more effective treatment for ...

In a recent segment on the “Today” show, Chantrise Holliman, a mother, wife and heart health educator based in Georgia, shared the story of her heart attack and what seemed like the fairly benign ...

Heart attacks remain one of the leading health threats in the U.S., striking about 805,000 people every year. Roughly 12 percent are fatal, according to federal data cited by The New York Times.