cardiovascular disease

Health Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: What’s on tap at a major heart conference

Health Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: For heart health, physical activity favors women

The Workup Vishal Khetpal

STAT Plus: Why this cardiologist is cautious about the Apple Watch’s blood pressure feature

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Novo Nordisk layoffs, an Amgen discount program, and more

Biotech Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: Amgen says its cholesterol shot prevented heart problems in a broad population

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Warning: Serious cardiovascular events don’t come out of the blue

Health Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: As investor for AHA, ‘Venture Valkyrie’ argues ‘good medicine is good business’

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Apple Watch’s hypertension alert misses half of cases. Experts still think it will boost treatment

Health Isabella Cueto

Risk of dying from chronic disease in the U.S. declined, but there are caveats, study says

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Covid-19 falls off list of top 10 causes of death in U.S.

Health tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Apple introduces smartwatch feature designed to detect high blood pressure

Pharma Andrew Joseph

STAT Plus: Novartis to buy Tourmaline Bio, gaining promising heart medicine

Biotech Jonathan Wosen

STAT Plus: Ionis drug lowers triglycerides, reduces pancreas damage in late-stage studies

Biotech Allison DeAngelis

STAT Plus: Biotech veterans John Maraganore, Clive Meanwell launch new heart disease startup with lofty goals

The Workup Vishal Khetpal

STAT Plus: Make statins available without a prescription

In the Lab Jonathan Saltzman — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Trump administration restored funding for major diabetes study. The pause still set researchers back

Biotech Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Alnylam’s hypertension treatment did not significantly lower blood pressure in mid-stage study

Biotech Adam Feuerstein

STAT Plus: Cytokinetics drug yielded benefits over common therapy in patients with heart condition, study shows

Politics Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: Trump’s hand bruise renews attention to his health — and his heart

Health Elizabeth Cooney

What updated thresholds for statin use could mean for patients

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Lowering blood pressure reduces dementia risk, new guideline affirms

Biotech Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Alnylam raises revenue outlook as heart drug sees quick uptake

Biotech Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Lilly’s diabetes drug Mounjaro matches heart benefit of older treatment

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Most Americans’ hearts are older than their chronological age, new tool says

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Nearly 1 in 3 teens have prediabetes, CDC finds, in ‘wake-up call’

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Male and female athletes have different hearts, and that can have serious consequences

The MAHA Diagnosis Sarah Todd

STAT Plus: Why MAHA wants whole milk back on the table

Biotech Elaine Chen

STAT Plus: Eli Lilly to buy gene-editing biotech Verve for up to $1.3 billion

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Risk scores accurately predicted heart attacks, study finds. With CT scans, they did even better