A new study is linking chemicals commonly found in plastics with deaths from heart disease around the world. The research, published in the journal eBioMedicine this spring, linked more than 350,000 deaths worldwide to phthalate exposure. Phthalates (pronounced tha-lates) are a set of ...

Take action or wait and see? That’s been the longstanding question when it comes to people with failing heart valves experiencing few early symptoms. Now, the “wait and see” approach with regular checkups is coming into question with results of a new study published this fall in The ...