Kyoto University study shows green tea intake reduces abdominal aneurysm expansion in rats. 

Heart attacks cause severe damage to the heart, which over time can lead to heart failure. It can be hard to anticipate and even more difficult to prevent, but a new medical product may be able to help.

Northwestern Medicine recently became the first hospital in Illinois to perform a TAVR procedure on a low-risk patient.  

The FDA approved the Sapien 3 transcatheter heart valve on Aug. 18 for patients with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis who are at intermediate risk for open heart surgery. The Sapien 3 (Edwards Lifesciences) is the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) device approved to treat intermediate risk patients.

Patients with anemia had an increased risk of death up to one year after suffering a stroke, according to a meta-analysis in the U.K.

Though mortality from heart disease has decreased as a result of a 2010 American Heart Association initiative, some groups are at increased risk for developing heart disease, including African-Americans in the Southeastern U.S. 

Adding more raspberries to your diet could help keep you healthier as recent research points to them as a superfood.

A recent retrospective, population-based cohort study in Canada showed that proximity to an AED might not always lead to using the device. More than 20 percent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occurred near a public AED that was inaccessible at the time of the arrest.