Women may reach similar heart protection with about half the weekly exercise time men need, study suggests. See what the ...

An international research consortium co-led by scientists from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the University of Toronto and University of Pittsburgh has mapped the functional impact of more ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking genetic map. This resource identifies individuals at risk for high cholesterol and ...

The Midwest hospital system aims to embed genetic testing into everyday care for heart disease and discover new genetic risk ...

An international team led by a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientist has created a first-of-its-kind resource ...

The findings support the recommendation to minimize added sugars in the diets of pregnant women and infants. A new study published in The BMJ has found that limiting sugar intake during early life is ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a type of heart disease that can affect 1 in 7 cats and 1 in 500 humans. Though it used ...

In 2023, Jill Martin took a test that changed her life. She underwent genetic testing for breast cancer and learned she had a BRCA2 mutation, which increases one’s risk of developing breast and other ...

Jane Tiller receives funding through an Investigator Grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council. She is co-lead of the DNA Screen study, which was funded through the Australian ...

Genetic testing for ATTR can detect transthyretin mutations and offer crucial information about risk, monitoring, and treatment, if needed. Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) is a genetic condition that ...

Analysis of 300 million patient records shows only 0.2% of the U.S. population has been tested for lipoprotein(a) Testing for lipoprotein(a) — a genetic risk factor for heart disease — remains ...