Heart disease

Artificial sweeteners help obese people lose 1.6 kg in a year and improve gut bacteria

WHO recommends against using low-calorie sweeteners for weight control, citing risks of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

Artificial Sweeteners.
THE MAYO CLINIC headquarters in Rochester, Minnesota: Though being overweight or obese is certainly a risk factor and increases one’s odds of suffering a cardiac event, the Mayo Clinic cites data that 15-30% of thin people will get heart disease, the writer notes.

It’s time to treat heart disease like the preventable crisis it is - opinion

 Boxes with the popular weight loss injection drug, Wegovy.

Wegovy injections reduce risk of heart attacks and strokes by 57%, study finds

 Illustrative photo shows various medicine pills in their original packaging

Does a common heart attack pill help everyone? Studies disagree


Women's heart attacks differ from men's, this gene may be why - study

Heart disease kills more people worldwide than any other disease, but it often goes undiagnosed in women, who are more likely to die of it than men. This gene may be why.

 Heart attack (Illustrative).

If Passover causes you stress, it may affect your heart

Some people like family holidays, while for others it’s a time full of stress. The stress that comes before and during Passover can take a heavy toll on you

 A man clutches his head as he suffers from a headache and stress (Illustrative)

People with serious mental illness more likely to suffer from heart disease, study finds

Contributing factors to increased heart disease risk include alcohol use, lower physical activity, poorer socioeconomic status, lower-quality diet.

Calls to a mental health hotline in Israel doubled during the recent crisis, with many callers expressing anxiety about conditions within Israel.

Cardiac catheterization used to fix heart defect for first time in Israel

It was decided that Yifrach should undergo surgery to correct and reduce the blood load flowing to the lungs that caused him to have an irregular heart beat.

THE HADASSAH-UNIVERSITY Medical Center campus is seen in Ein Kerem.

Can a broken heart make you physically sick? New research

Broken heart syndrome isn’t really rare and it seems to affect a certain population segment.

 Sad woman (illustrative)

Heart inflammation caused by COVID vaccines mild and short-term - study

A new study examined 15 patients between the ages of 17 and 76 who developed heart inflammation after their first or second jab

 A representative MRi image of a patient suffering from myocarditis after a corona vaccine

'Broken Heart Syndrome' on the rise, even before COVID pandemic - study

The condition, known as Takotsubo syndrome (TTS), is also referred to as stress-induced cardiomyopathy and has been proven to primarily affect middle aged women.

 BROKEN HEART (Illustrative)

New study finds: Coffee helps protect your heart

How does coffee affect your heart? A new study has found how many cups of coffee you should drink a day to keep your heart going

 Cup of coffee

J'lem synagogues to install hundreds of defibrillators for High Holidays

The defibrillators in question are automatic - meaning that they can be operated easily and independently, with no need for previous medical training.

New defibrillator station in Ashkelon

Winning Israel’s battle for hearts and minds, literally

At Save a Child’s Heart, our mission is simple - to provide life-saving procedures for children suffering from heart disease who have little access to care in their own countries.

Executive Director of Save a Child's Heart Simon Fisher