Doctors and public health officials have been telling us for years that eating too much sodium can increase the risk of heart attack or stroke by raising blood pressure to unsafe levels. So how to explain a new study that suggests low salt intake actually increases the risk of dying from those causes?

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Low-salt diet, more heart attack risk?

Doctors, hospitals and federal regulators are struggling to cope with an unprecedented surge in drug shortages in the United States that is endangering cancer patients, heart attack victims, accident survivors and a host of other ill people.

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Shortages of key drugs endanger patients

Edinburgh University researchers say a more sensitive blood test could increase the number of heart attack patients correctly diagnosed.

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Heart attack test ‘detects more’

Exercising or having sex roughly triples a person’s risk of heart attack in the hours immediately afterward, especially if the person does those activities infrequently, according to a new analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Heart risk spikes after sex, exercise

We’ve all seen those scenes in movies where some couch potato who doesn’t usually get a lot of exercise suddenly clutches their chest and drops dead from a heart attack when they decide to do something active, such as have sex. But does that really happen? Well, a new analysis indicates that the answer is yes.

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The link between occasional physical activity and heart attack

The Venezuelan political activist Lina Ron – one of president Hugo Chavez’s most radical supporters – dies of a heart attack at 53.

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Venezuela radical Lina Ron dies

Federal authorities say they have arrested a fugitive in rural Florida who was on the lam for 30 years after faking a heart attack to escape from prison.

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Fugitive caught after 30 years on lam

Taking certain painkillers regularly for many years carries a small increased risk of heart attack and stroke, according to research.

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Painkillers linked to heart risk

An ambulance technician who did not respond to a heart attack victim when he was on a tea break is to keep his job.

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‘Rest break’ death man keeps job

If you take aspirin, you’ve got a pain reliever, heart attack preventer and possible cancer preventer rolled into one tablet. You might think that whoever invented aspirin is a genius, but the truth is humans have been using its natural equivalent for thousands of years.

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Old aspirin is new ‘miracle’ drug

A review cited a higher risk of bone fracture, heart attack and death with use of narcotic-based drugs.

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Study Cites Narcotic Danger to Elderly

A two-year-old girl died at an Essex nursery after getting her head wedged and suffering a heart attack, an inquest hears.

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Girl had heart attack at nursery

Having multiple miscarriages increases the risk of a heart attack later in life, according to researchers.

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Miscarriage ‘raises heart risk’

Losing a pregnancy can break a mom-to-be’s heart in more ways than one. According to a new study, women who experience a stillbirth or repeated miscarriages have a dramatically increased risk of heart attack later in life.

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Miscarriages quintuple heart attack risk

Women with very demanding jobs are nearly twice as likely to have a heart attack as their peers in more easygoing occupations, a new study suggests.

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Study ties heart attacks to job stress