Heart Attacks

Naps may reduce risk of stroke, heart attacks

Naps may be good for your heart – but only a couple a week

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire: dispelling the safety myth of e-cigarettes, vaping

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Getting just the right amount of sleep can help prevent heart attacks

Sleep increase heart attack risk

Study: Sex increases chances of survival following a heart attack

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Doctor, is it OK if I use marijuana?

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Miracle machine makes heroic rescues – and leaves patients in limbo

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Children's Health

Most youth who suddenly die playing sports are middle schoolers, study finds

Youth Deaths Basketball Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Heart attacks can happen to young and fit women – as South Jersey mother learned

Heart Attack SCAD

Study links e-cigarette use to cardiovascular disease, heart attacks

Heart Healthy stethoscope

Pennsylvania high school basketball player mourned after fatal heart attack

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CVS offers free weekly heart health checks in February

Doctor takes a patient's blood pressure

Love, chocolate and your heart

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The slippery slope of fish oil supplements

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Will an aspirin a day keep a heart attack away?

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Spend one hour per week lifting weights and reap the heart health benefits

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Penn study finds that black patients are much more likely to die of sudden cardiac death

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'Broken heart syndrome' is a real thing — and it can quickly turn deadly, according to new study

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Arrested development: Can we improve cardiac arrest survival in hospitals?

Kevin Smith: Heart attack seemed like 'I got some bad milk'

Kevin Smith undergoes ‘massive heart attack’ following comedy set

Medical Research

Jefferson researchers find promise for improving stem cell therapy after heart attack

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New Jersey nurse helps save woman's life during flight

Officials ID police officer who died after massive heart attack at CJC

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SEPTA officials, medics respond to cardiac arrest patient on Philly subway

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Binge drinking increases heart attack risk in the next 24 hours, study finds

Jersey Shore fire chief suffers heart attack at scene of blaze

Customer complains about 'ruined' New Year's Eve after woman's heart attack

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App crowdsources CPR in Burlington County to increase survival rate

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SEPTA officer goes into cardiac arrest while apprehending vandal

Septa

Bensalem officer dies in 5k race

Kevin Cornish

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