Cardiac surgeon Amy Fiedler, MD, stares at the motionless heart below her in an operating room at UC San Francisco’s Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. She’s nearly five hours into a ...

As a cardiologist, I see this far too often: women come to us later in the course of heart disease, sometimes after weeks or even months of vague symptoms that were dismissed or misdiagnosed. We've ...

About two years ago, Kristina Auwarter was leaning over to pick up her son from his crib when she felt a spot of pain bloom in her chest. Initially, nothing about it raised her suspicion; she’d just ...

Heart disease has long been the top killer of women in the United States, but new research suggests uterine fibroids, which many may not even be aware they have, could be putting them at a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Geri Stengel writes about the success factors of women entrepreneurs. Women’s Cardiovascular Health is finally getting ...

A new study suggests that men require nearly double the amount of exercise as women to lower heart disease risk an equivalent amount. Women who got 250 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise each ...

Senior Lecturer in Clinical Exercise Physiology, University of East London Exercise is like medicine for the heart, and just like with medication, you need the right “dose” for it to be effective. But ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The American Heart Association held the Capital Region Go Red for Women luncheon on Thursday. Hundreds gathered at the Albany Capital Center while dressed in red to raise ...

Men may need to exert double the amount of effort as women to fend off heart disease. That's according to new research from China that found men need twice as much exercise as women to lower their ...

Researchers followed more than 85,000 adults in the U.K. for about seven years. Women may need less exercise than men to gain similar protection against coronary heart disease, according to a new ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the United States. This weekend, Sentara Healthcare and the American Heart Association joined forces to shine a light on a ...

A new study delves into the unconventional causes of heart attacks in women and people under 45. It points at the need for expanded understanding of heart attack prevention. It also reminds us that ...