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  1. Health & Medicine

    Big meals boost heart attack risk

    Unusually heavy meals boost a person's chance of developing a heart attack, at least among those people who already have risk factors for heart disease.

    By Damaris Christensen
  2. Health & Medicine

    It’s that time. . .for heart attacks?

    A small study of young women already at high risk of having a heart attack suggests that heart attacks are most frequent when estrogen levels are low, soon after a woman's period begins.

    By Damaris Christensen
  3. Health & Medicine

    New role for cholesterol-lowering drugs

    Drugs that lower cholesterol benefit patients who have just had a heart attack or chest pains, regardless of the patient's initial cholesterol levels.