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Four days before last Christmas, Ellen Abbott had a stroke.

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A new study with a modern diabetes drug is the first to reduce deaths from heart complications in people with Type 2 diabetes.

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Recovering from a heart problem? Be sure to do this

Cardiac rehab is a proven way to make heart patients stronger and healthier, and thus happier. Yet far too many fail to take advantage.

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Heart disease – which kills more Americans than any other cause – continues to decline, federal data show.

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Native American activist learns to put self first

After her stroke, Sheryl Gann, a Native-American activist, learned that she had to fight for her health first.

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Cigarette marketing and tobacco spending

The money that the tobacco industry spends on marketing far outpaces the money that states spend on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, according to a new report released Tuesday.

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Women with Type 2 diabetes are twice as likely as men to have coronary heart disease.

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Queen Latifah and her mother fight heart failure

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