At the SXSW Festival 2012, HBO rolled out the red carpet, screened three episodes of Lena Dunham's Girls, and viewers wandered into a bona fide hit. Whose time, incidentally, had come.

What writer/actress/director, Lena...

Already I've been asked, should Andrea Yates -- who drowned her five children in the bathtub of her suburban Houston home nearly eleven years ago -- be allowed a two-hour weekly pass to attend church services? Yates has been...

Exposure to radiation from cell phones during pregnancy may affect the developing brain of offspring, possibly leading to hyperactivity, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers whose study was performed using mice.

"This is the first experimental evidence...

The story I'm about to finish here is, at the very least, a magical one. Perhaps a spiritual antidote -- if there is such a thing -- for so much lost to kidney disease.

After nearly four years of...

I was a kidney virgin. I knew absolutely nothing about my "Top 5 Kidney Numbers." You, too? Click here.

Then radio show and "America's Got Talent" host Nick Cannon, below left with his wife Mariah Carey...

My big-hearted friend Henry led a "Madmen-style" life for many years, so it was natural that on American Heart Health Day 1 of 29 Heart Health Blogs, I called him.

Perhaps he or one of his former wingmen had suffered...

First of all, thanks for doing this interview.

I don't usually do interviews. I'm only speaking with you now to thank Arianna Huffington for supporting American Heart Month and the Yale Heart Study.

What's the question people most often ask...

Heart Take Away: A diet too high in salt and too low in potassium doubles the risk of death from heart disease, according to a Center for Disease Control study led by researcher Elena V. Kuklina, M.D., Ph.D., a nutritional epidemiologist.

Cabernet Sauvignon, followed closely by Petit Syrah and Pinot Noir are the red wines which contain the highest concentration of flavonoids, according to researchers at the University of California at Davis. Merlots and red zinfandels have fewer flavonoids--antioxidants...

That is, dancing with the "stars" below from Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland, WA; Beaumont Hospital in Grosse Pointe, MI; St. Vincent's Hospital in Erie, PA ; Indiana Regional Medical Center in Indiana, PA; Greystone Healthcare Management (27 locations); and Hilton Head Hospital in Hilton Head, SC.

On February 25th from...

Hospitals and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) have been implementing strategies to decrease door-to-balloon (D2B) time.

Not familiar with D2B? It's the term for the time it takes to get a heart attack victim to the hospital for a cardiac angioplasty...

Dr. Weil's Anti-inflammatory Food Pyramid

I knew I couldn't get away with it: ignoring the "Great Fat Debate" in my "Unsaturated Fat Tuesday" column earlier this week.

Some readers were quick to remind me of doctors, health care...

by guest columnist Megan Parmenter

Fasting: "present participle of fast (v): To abstain from all or some kinds of food or drink, esp. as a religious observance."

When we eat, our bodies convert food into useable forms....

American Heart Month: Day 22. ABC's World News Tonight anchor Diane Sawyer spotlights the misunderstood symptoms of women's heart attacks and how young women can be overlooked, featuring segments of the satiric video made by actress and director Elizabeth Banks: Just a Little Heart Attack. Dr. Richard Besser explains.

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I don't want to put words in 2012 New Orleans' Mardi Gras King Will Ferrell's mouth, but he might be saying, "Let them eat King Cake." Today is Fat Tuesday, after all.

Some fats promote good health, some don't. The

I really don't know how I could have missed the fact that within one year of having a heart attack, 42 percent of women will die and 24 percent of men.

See for yourself at the U.S. Department of...

Actor Jack Nicholson realistically acted the post-heart attack depression that 50 percent of survivors experience following a heart attack. Here his character experiences an unusual (for him) emotional moment in Nancy Meyer's 2003 comedy "Something's Gotta Give" with Diane Keaton. Nicholson's character...

"Quitting smoking is the single most important step smokers can take to improve their health," according to Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association. Quitting is also significantly more difficult for the poor than for their better-off...

Bobby Z's nearly-fatal heart attack started in his elbows.

"My heart attack wasn't a Hollywood-style moment where you grab your chest and fall over," Bobby Z, drummer for Prince & The Revolution, told me. "The symptoms can start in your...

Antioxidant-rich cranberry juice may boost heart health by decreasing arterial stiffness, according to a recent Tufts and Boston University study.

Buying cranberry juice with no sugar (fruit sugars included) is not possible. Ergo, the "miracle." Double-dog dare you to prove...