Tag: American Heart Association

  • Health

    Women with heart risk

    Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women in the United States, deadlier than all forms of cancer combined. The good news is that up to 90 percent of heart disease may be preventable.

  • Health

    ‘Whole grain’ not always healthy

    U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2010 Dietary Guidelines recommend that Americans consume at least three servings of whole-grain products daily, and the new U.S. national school lunch standards require that at least half of all grains be whole-grain rich. However, no single standard exists for defining any product as a “whole grain,” according to a Harvard…

  • Health

    Struttin’ its stuff

    Harvard researchers have found that a tiny motor inside of us called dynein, one tasked with shuttling vital payloads throughout the cell’s intricate highway infrastructure, staggers, which is quite contrary to the regular, efficient poise of its fellow motors.

  • Campus & Community

    AHA honors Ruhul Abid’s research

    A paper by Ruhul Abid was recently selected by the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology as the most outstanding vascular biology paper of 2010.