Heart Disease

Dr. Adria Schmedthorst

How your dentist can keep your arteries from narrowing

A robust relationship between the mouth and the heart has long been established. But recent research shows an easy way to leverage it to reduce serious risks that can add up to a leading cause of heart trouble…

Dr. Elizabeth Klodas MD, FACC

Menopause and the big lie: The lasting impact

All is not as it first appears. That’s what we’re learning about menopause and hormone replacement therapy. A lot of women have suffered needlessly, but what new research reveals about HRT can change everything from this point on…

Carolyn Gretton

A simple device to combat heart-damaging air pollution

Air pollution damages more than your lungs. Several studies acknowledge its threat to heart health. As inescapable as it may seem, there is a way to combat it and protect your heart in the process…

Dr. Elizabeth Klodas MD, FACC

Menopause and the big lie: The facts they left out

The Women’s Health Initiative was a series of clinical studies by the National Institutes of Health in 1991 to address health issues in postmenopausal women. It changed how we approach menopause, for all the wrong reasons…

Joyce Hollman

The unnecessary reason for men’s increasingly shorter lifespans

Harvard researchers say the life expectancy gap between men and women has grown to six years. That’s unsettling enough, but the underlying reason behind increasingly shorter lifespans among men is even more so…

Dr. Adria Schmedthorst

Coffee: The cardiometabolic disease crusher that lowers heart disease, diabetes and stroke

Loads of research has stacked evidence of coffee’s health benefits. But it gets better. Beyond the heart, it slays a cluster of conditions, even in early stages, to crush what’s now known as cardiometabolic disease, and it just takes this much…