Infant deaths from critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) declined by 33.4 percent in eight states that mandated pulse oximetry screening for newborns, according to a study published online Dec. 5 in JAMA.

Higher body mass index (BMI) in middle age could be a warning sign of dementia decades down the road, scientists reported this week, but weight loss leading up to a formal diagnosis could mask symptoms and confound patients.

More than half of U.S. children will be obese at age 35, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The FDA has approved Amgen’s evolocumab (Repatha) for the prevention of strokes, heart attacks and coronary revascularizations—the first PCSK9 inhibitor to gain approval for such a broad number of indications.

A new study published in JAMA Neurology suggests clinicians have opted to perform carotid artery stenting (CAS) more often since the CREST trial has been published, even in patient populations for which the trial demonstrated the benefit of carotid endarterectomy (CEA).

Recent research provided sobering news on Americans’ ability to respond to cardiac arrest, which has about a 10 percent survival rate when occurring outside the hospital, according to the American Heart Association (AHA).

One 70-year-old admitted to Jackson Memorial Hospital this year sparked an ethics debate when he arrived to the ER near death with the words “do not resuscitate” tattooed on his chest.

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created a fully functioning heart muscle from pluripotent stem cells that is large enough to patch over damaged areas in human heart attack patients.