Latest Health Articles for Heart Disease

• California widow cleared of poisoning Marine husband wants his death certificate changed

  article 2008-05-02  |  Author: Allison Hoffman
  Cynthia Sommer has a death certificate for her Marine husband that lists homicide as his cause of death. Forensic experts said Todd Sommer was poisoned with arsenic.But the lab results underpinning that finding were discredited two weeks ago, leading prosecutors to release the widow from jail more than two years ......

• Why are gorillas in zoos dying from heart disease? Scientific sleuths now on the case

  article 2008-04-06  |  Author: Todd Lewan
  Mopie looked the picture of ape fitness: His shoulders were broad and imposing, his silver-haired back sculpted and muscular, his biceps bulging as wide as a wrestler's thighs when he scratched his head.He had a healthy appetite (he'd put away 7 pounds of food daily) and Mopie was no couch ......

• Schering-Plough targets up to $1B in further cost cuts after critical report on Vytorin

  article 2008-04-03  |  Author: Linda A. Johnson
  Days after top cardiologists criticized Schering-Plough Corp.'s crucial cholesterol drugs Vytorin and Zetia, sending its stock price tumbling, the drugmaker late Wednesday announced a new round of cost-cutting and layoffs.The new reductions — 10 percent of staff and $1 billion (euro640,000 million) in annualized cost savings — come on top ......

• Former Princeton president Robert F. Goheen dies

  article 2008-04-01  |  Author: Staff
  Robert F. Goheen, who led Princeton University during the 1960s, a time of rapid turbulent change for the college and the world, died Monday. He was 88.Goheen died of heart failure at the University Medical Center at Princeton, the school said.He was a 37-year-old assistant classics professor when ......

• Blood pressure drugs can prevent heart attacks and stroke, even in the very old, studies find

  article 2008-04-01  |  Author: Marilynn Marchione
  Two big studies offer good news to people with high blood pressure, finding that novel ways to use cheap drugs already on the market can lower their risk of heart attacks, stroke and death — even if they are very old.Both studies were stopped early so the surprising ......

• Federal agencies saying their rules pre-empt injury suits

  article 2008-03-31  |  Author: Janet Mcconnaughey
  If you think the prescription drug you took for headaches caused your heart attack, the Food and Drug Administration says you can't sue the maker for injury if it met agency standards.The Consumer Product Safety Commission says you can't sue a mattress maker if your mattress bursts into ......

• As costs leap, health insurers put limits on advanced imaging scans

  article 2008-03-24  |  Author: Linda A. Johnson
  Insurance companies are taking a harder look at advanced medical scans like CT scans, citing spiraling costs and safety concerns. And some doctors agree there's emerging evidence that these scans are being over-prescribed."Costs are soaring in this area, quality concerns are mounting and safety concerns are mounting," said Karen Ignagni, ......

• Widow testifies about actor John Ritter's death

  article 2008-03-04  |  Author: Linda Deutsch
  Sobbing into her hands, John Ritter's widow on Monday gave jurors in a wrongful-death trial a minute-by-minute account of events leading up to the actor's death in 2003.Amy Yasbeck sometimes could barely speak through her tears as she recounted the last hours in which she was summoned to a hospital ......

• Obituaries in the news

  article 2008-03-02  |  Author: The Associated Press
  Hans JanitschekUNITED NATIONS (AP) — Hans Janitschek, an Austrian journalist who spent years as a U.N. consultant and also served as secretary general of the Socialist International organization, has died. He was 73.His wife, Friedl, said Janitschek died suddenly at U.N. headquarters on Feb. 21, and the cause of death ......

• John Ritter's widow testifies about actor's final day; family is suing doctors for $67M

  article 2008-02-29  |  Author: Linda Deutsch
  Jurors in the trial of a wrongful-death lawsuit against two of John Ritter's doctors heard the actor's voice Thursday as he reported to his wife in a phone message that he wasn't feeling well and thought he had food poisoning.Ritter's widow, Amy Yasbeck, testified that the message was left just ......