Thanks to a collaboration between Columbia and Cornell doctors, Yasin Samad is one of the first children in the United States to receive an innovative artificial heart valve.
The rising complexity of heart disease requires new ways to treat it, including those that combine surgical and catheter-based approaches in the same patient.
Ever since Type A personality was linked to cardiovascular disease in the 1950s, it’s been known that anger raises the risk of heart attack and stroke. Now a Columbia study may explain how.
A minimally invasive procedure for fixing diseased aortic valves is just as safe and durable as traditional surgery after five years, a new study reports.
A new study of sleep in women shows that delaying bedtime by just 90 minutes each night damages cells that line the blood vessels, supporting the hypothesis that poor sleep is linked to heart health.
Brief walks every hour can offset the harms of prolonged sitting—but who has time for that? With the help of an NPR podcast, researcher Keith Diaz is trying to identify, and break, the barriers.
In a field that relies heavily on studies of male patients, Columbia interventional cardiologist Margaret McEntegart is working to improve outcomes for women with heart disease.
People exposed to low doses of ionizing radiation have an extra, but modest, risk of developing heart disease during their lifetime, according to a new study.
Cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins have the potential to reduce heart disease in people with obstructive sleep apnea regardless of CPAP use, suggests a new study from Columbia University.