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Your article (Doctors find drug that is better than aspirin at preventing heart attacks, 31 August) is of great interest. It cites a study that proposes…

1. MedicineDoctors in Madrid hailed a new pill for patients with high blood pressure resistant to existing medication as a “gamechanger” and a “triumph of science”.Globally,…

A simple cheek-swab test can identify children with a potentially deadly heart condition, five years before they would normally be diagnosed, research has found.Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM),…

Weight loss drugs can reduce by half the risk of heart patients being hospitalised or dying early, according to the largest study of its kind.The class…

Doctors have successfully developed an artificial intelligence-led stethoscope that can detect three heart conditions in 15 seconds.Invented in 1816, the traditional stethoscope – used to listen…

Doctors may have discovered the secret to mending a broken heart in a world-first clinical trial.Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are living with takotsubo cardiomyopathy,…

Eating foods rich in potassium, such as avocados, bananas and spinach, could reduce your risk of heart conditions, hospitalisation and death by 24%, a study suggests.Previous…

Getting the shingles vaccine could lower your risk of a heart attack or stroke by as much as 20%, according to the first study of its…

FAQSWe tested and recommend all of the heart rate monitors below, which do a pretty impeccable job. But what do all these terms mean?Heart rate zones:…

Serbian filmmaker Stefan Đorđević‘s “Winds, Talk to Me,” an exploration of the mother-son relationship, won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film at the 31st…