MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (WTNH) — A nonprofit group is reaching out to school-aged kids with heart healthy lessons. Lily’s Kids is on a mission to get children thinking about protecting their heart. A heart ...

For over 30 years, Terrie Williams has been studying exercise physiology in wild animals: African lions and wild dogs, dolphins and whales, coyotes and mountain lions, as well as a few human athletes.

Simon Keith is, literally, a walking miracle. In 1989, the former soccer standout for at UNLV, made history by becoming the first heart transplant recipient to play professional sports. Keith was the ...

Kida, a 110-pound Alaskan malamute, runs on a treadmill in Terrie Williams’ lab at UC Santa Cruz. Dogs are better adapted for endurance exercise than cats, and humans are more like dogs in that ...

It’s never a good moment for disaster to strike, but the timing of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was particularly unfortunate for one of the region’s most commercially valuable ...

The death of Tim Russert is teaching us a lot about the mechanics of sudden heart attack. First, we're all right to be paranoid. There are roughly 1.2 million heart attacks a year in the U.S., over ...

Last week, the American College of Cardiology, whose marketing skills approach those of the pharmaceutical industry, provided a stage for clinical trial results comparing ways to prevent heart attacks ...