Much like the rest of the world, the United Kingdom has long grappled with trying to convince citizens to maintain healthier lifestyles in an effort to curb the risk of heart attacks.

Interested in reducing your risk of heart disease? It might be easier than you think. Cutting out cake, biscuits, cereal and certain other high phosphate foods may be all that is needed to do the trick.

Impax Laboratories has received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration in reference to batches of a cholesterol medication that failed to meet specifications.

Scientists have long believed that green tea is more than just a tasty beverage. Green tea has been suspected of offering a number of health benefits ranging from help lowering cholesterol to fighting cancer and even assisting with heart problems.

Patients with high cholesterol have enough to worry about. But a new 'ultra-bad' form of cholesterol recently discovered by researchers may inadvertently aid those patients by leading to new treatments for preventing heart disease particularly in those with type 2 diabetes and the elderly.

Just when you thought a healthy lifestyle meant eating nuts, fruits, and vegetables, medical manna has come straight down from heaven. Move over veggies, Momma needs her chocolate!

Heart disease patients usually take certain drugs to lower their cholesterol. Researchers found that patients treated for heart disease with surgery were less likely to stay on their cholesterol-lowering drugs, than those patients who were treated only with drugs.

Having too much cholesterol in your blood can raise your risk for some serious health problems. There are drugs for high cholesterol, but they can have lots of side effects. Now, researchers may have found a way to treat high cholesterol without as many side effects.

As many as 35 million adults in the U.S. may suffer with metabolic syndrome-- a group of risk factors including high blood pressure, obesity and high blood glucose levels.

Mammalian newborn hearts can heal themselves completely, according to new research from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.