Heart Disease

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Heart News

The latest heart-related news headlines.

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Heart Disease Feature Story

Stents May Not Be the Ultimate Answer

Experts urge continued innovation as success rates flatten

Has the bloom gone off the rose, so to speak? The value of using stents to open blocked heart arteries -- once the subject of considerable fanfare -- is now being questioned by some heart experts. full story»

Heart-Related Illnesses and Conditions

Find information about illnesses and conditions that relate to the heart or search the entire database.

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Heart-Related Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Search complementary and alternative therapies for heart.

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Heart-Related Drug Guide

Search the Drug Guide, an electronic drug reference that provides useful patient education, summaries of more than 2,400 commonly prescribed medications.


Ace Inhibitors
AntiCoagulants
Beta Blockers
Long-Acting Calcium Channel Blockers
Nitrates (Nitroglycerin and Long-Acting Nitrates)

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Medical Tests

Ambulatory Electrocardiography

Cardiac Blood Pool Scan

Cardiac Catheterization or Coronary Angiography

Cardiac Enzyme Studies

Chest X-Ray

Cholesterol and Triglycerides Tests

Echocardiography

Electrocardiography

Exercise Electrocardiography

Homocysteine

Pulse Measurement

Thallium/Technetium (Sestamibi) Cardiac Scan

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