heart attack

February is American Heart Month, and a number of celebrities have gotten in on the message—in particular, Allison Janney. Janney is now the spokesperson for Go Red for Women, a campaign by the American Heart Association aimed at spreading awareness that the number one killer of women (and men) is heart disease.

When you love a restaurant called Heart Attack Grill as much as John Alleman did, your death shouldn’t come as a total shock.

Toronto resident Jason Kroft, his wife and their two young children came to New York city earlier this month to visit Kroft's brother-in-law, Andrew Zeller. Zeller was giving the Canadian family a tour of 30 Rockefeller Plaza when Kroft, who had no history of heart disease, went into cardiac arrest, fell to the ground and stopped breathing.

Steven Nusbaum, 65, of Illinois was flying his experimental aircraft on Tuesday when the unthinkable happened — he suffered a heart-attack mid-flight.

Are smoking bans really helping in improving the "mortality rate of America"? According to RAND Corporation researcher Kanaka Shetty, NO! In fact the studies show in some places there was a drop in incident mortality and/or hospital admissions for myocardial infarction.