As large parts of the U.S. dig out from a major winter storm, health officials are renewing warnings about the serious and potentially deadly risks of shoveling snow, which has been linked to heart ...

Arteries become clogged. Blood flow is restricted and oxygen is cut off. The result is a heart attack, the world's leading cause of death. The conventional approach to studying and treating these ...

Digging out from the weekend’s massive snow and ice storm could be hazardous to your heart. Pennsylvania health officials announced three snow-removal related deaths Sunday. All were between the ages ...

Following a heart attack, the brain picks up and acts on signals that come directly from sensory neurons located in the heart. The discovery suggests there is a feedback loop, which involves the ...

Heart attacks while shoveling snow are a well-documented risk. Men with underlying heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes or low fitness are especially vulnerable. The American Heart Association ...

Miryam Naddaf is a science writer based in London. In the study, scientists identify a brain–immune circuit that exacerbates cardiovascular pathology during a heart attack. They identified neurons in ...

Heart attacks are often thought of as a plumbing issue, the result of a blockage preventing blood from flowing through one of the heart’s major thoroughfares. But scientists studying the heart’s ...

The human heart can lose up to one-third of its cardiomyocyte (heart muscle cells) following a severe heart attack, but a new study found that the heart can regrow these cells following ischemia.

This story originally ran on Jan. 28, 2026. It has been lightly edited to update. Cardiologist Youssef Rahban was alarmed during a shift in late January at UMass Memorial Hospital in Worcester, when ...

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WORCESTER − Eight patients suffering from major heart attacks were rushed to UMass Memorial Medical Center between Sunday and Monday morning, Jan. 25 to 26. What triggered seven of those heart attacks ...