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Many Black Americans would have to travel across county lines just to find an open spot with a cardiologist, a new analysis found. About 16.8 million Black Americans — roughly …
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Stroke risk prediction tools are meant to guide how doctors approach a potentially deadly condition, using factors like heart disease and high blood pressure to get a handle on which …
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In a significant victory, Apple has successfully challenged patents at the center of a high-profile dispute with medical device company AliveCor. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and …
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For as long as Daniel McKizzie can remember, church has been part of his life. McKizzie — Reverend McKizzie to his congregation — is the pastor and founder of New …
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When coronary arteries are blocked, starving the heart of blood, there are good medications and treatments to deploy, from statins to stents. Not so for heart failure, the leading factor …
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Can CRISPR edit out a heart attack? What happens on #GutTok? And is health care recession-proof? We cover all that and more this week on “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech …
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A new study finds that a popular erectile dysfunction drug, which is increasingly being used to try to prevent heart complications in people with type 2 diabetes, doesn’t benefit women …
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Taking low-dose aspirin every day to prevent a heart attack or stroke provides little to no benefit to people without cardiovascular disease but could instead increase the risk of dangerous …
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Older adults without heart disease shouldn’t take daily low-dose aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke, an influential health guidelines group said in preliminary updated advice released Tuesday. …
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