Kevin Smith on his Near Fatal Heart Attack

How hospitals are improving heart attack care, survival

In order to continue improving survival and prevention of heart damage, potential heart attack victims need to take action more quickly, heart experts said.

How this app helped reduce fatal heart attacks

Denmark has seen a dramatic increase in survival from heart attacks after it began recruiting volunteers and arming some of them with smartphone technology that alerts them to nearby cardiac emergencies and helps them locate automated external defibrillators, or AEDs.

Scientists May Have Figured Out How Stress And Heart Attacks Are Linked

Activity in the amygdala, a region of the brain associated with fear and stress, can predict your risk for heart disease and stroke, according to a study.

How to Tell the Difference Between a Panic Attack and a Heart Attack

How Does Public Data About Heart Attack Treatment Change It?

The sickest heart attack patients in states that report publicly on quality may get less treatment than those in states that don't. Public reporting is supposed to help patients shop intelligently for health care. But do doctors and hospitals game the quality systems?

How race and gender can affect life expectancy after a heart attack

Women and blacks need more prevention efforts and follow-up care, experts say.

Two Doctors Figured Out How To Treat A Centaur Having a Heart Attack

AI can predict when patients will have a heart attack or stroke

Artificial intelligence was tested by Barts Health NHS trust. The AI was used to analyse blood flow scans of more than 1,000 patients its predictions were more accurate than a doctor.

Heart Attack vs. Cardiac Arrest: Why They're Not the Same

One is a plumbing problem, while the other is electrical

Is It a Heart Attack or a Panic Attack?

The two can feel very similar—so how do you know the difference?

Are You Having a Heart Attack?

Life-saving ways to recognize and prevent heart attacks and strokes

What is a STEMI heart attack?

Knowing how to take action quickly during a heart attack could save a life or help you or a family member avoid permanent disability. That’s especially true in the case of a serious kind of heart attack known as a “STEMI.”<br>Diagnosing a STEMI<br>In a STEMI heart attack (ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction), a coronary artery in the heart is completely (not partially) blocked. The damage is so severe it causes electrical changes on an EKG, which alerts medical teams they must act quickly…

When Heartbreak Causes Heart Attacks

Today a massive amount of epidemiological data associates heart disease with chronic emotional disorder — or disruption of the metaphorical heart.

Siri, Am I About to Have a Heart Attack?

Andy Kessler write that big data could provide early warning of disease—if medical records can learn to talk to one other.

Are Doctors Failing to Diagnose Heart Attacks in Women?

Women are twice as likely to receive a heart attack misdiagnosis from a doctor. What’s leading to doctors failing to diagnose heart attacks in women?

When patients tweet their own heart attacks

This is the lovely world of social media, but it also demonstrates his limitations of the medium when potential life and death health care issues arise.

Heart Attack? Doctors Soon May Have an App for That

There are apps that turn your smartphone into a metal detector, a musical instrument and a GPS system, and now there's an app that may help doctors save your life if you're having a heart attack.

Are you at risk of a heart attack? There’s a test to find out

A free online tool that can estimate adults' 'heart age' and check their risk of having a stroke or heart attack is being rolled out by the NHS to help encourage healthy living<br>Health officials are urging adults to use the expert-developed Heart Age Test, which asks people over the age of 30 to answer a series of questions about their lifestyle and physical health.<br>If the tool estimates that an individual’s “heart age” is higher than their actual age, they will be…

Treating depression may prevent repeat heart attack

(HealthDay)—It's common for heart attack survivors to develop depression. Now a new trial has found that antidepressant treatment may help those patients avoid a second heart attack.