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Patients who’ve recently had heart attacks or heart surgery are sometimes nervous about sexual activity, fearing the rise in their pulse could be dangerous. But according to new guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA), those concerns may be for naught.

Tall men have some social advantages, and it seems they may enjoy an unexpected health benefit as well: a new study of U.S. doctors published in the American Journal of Cardiology indicates tall men are less likely than shorter ones to develop heart failure.

Wondering how exercise helps your heart? Joseph Libonati, PhD, associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, has few interesting insights.

Scientists at John Hopkins University have found that while vitamin D is important for heart protection, it may have diminishing — and harmful — returns if levels in the blood rise above even the lower end of normal.

Here are some of our favorite candies that are only available from roughly the second week of January to February 15th, when they are wonderfully half price!