Activity trackers not only count your steps, they can also obtain metrics associated with your general physical and cardiovascular health.

Bariatric surgery can reduce risk of heart disease for people with obesity, a new study shows.

Biases in studies concerning heart disease and metabolic disorder in midlife Black and Hispanic women may put their lives in jeopardy.

Fine particulate air pollution causes 1.5 million more premature deaths every year than previously thought.

A brief, easy to administer screener test for psychological distress can be an efficient way to assess patient risk for heart disease.

Health guidelines can feel contradictory and hard to interpret. But a new star rating system should help consumers and policymakers better parse the evidence behind health risks and outcomes.

"The interactions between red meat, our gut microbiome, and the bioactive metabolites they generate seem to be an important pathway for risk..."

It has long puzzled researchers why Latinos seem to have lower rates of heart disease than their non-Latino counterparts, even though they have higher risk factors for heart disease.