Children who are exposed to pet dogs, cats or other furry friends at home can develop problem snoring when they grow up, a new study has revealed. Heavy snoring has been linked to early death, heart disease and stroke, not to mention the obvious problems of sleep deprivation for the snorer and their partner.

Karl Franklin, the study's lead author and a physician at University Hospital here, analyzed sleep habits and other childhood hospitalizations of men and women aged 25 to 54 -- all residents of Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, and Estonia -- and got responses from 15,556

For patients with coronary artery disease, supplementing with B vitamins and folic acid does not reduce the risk associated with it, a new study has found.

The new study, reported in the Aug. 20 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed almost 3,100 volunteers. Three-quarters of them took various doses of vitamin B and folic acid (which is chemically a B vitamin), while the others got a placebo, an inactive substance

Young women who smoke are twice as likely to have a stroke as their non-smoking counterparts, according to a new study. And the number of cigarettes a woman smokes is directly proportional to the risk.

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine interviewed 466 women who had had a stroke between the ages of 15 and 49, and were either smokers, non-smokers or former smokers. A comparison group consisted of 604 women of similar age, race, and ethnicity who had not had a stroke

Stents, a tiny mesh tube used to keep arteries from reclogging, does not offer significantly greater benefits compared to drug therapy alone, new research says. Researchers found that one-third of the 1 million stents used in the U.S. each year might not be needed.

The procedure known as angioplasty, which opens diseased arteries, offer only a short-term advantage over drugs in easing pain and fatigue, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine

It is possible to be fat and fit at the same time, a surprising new study has revealed. In the first national study of its kind, researchers found that at least half of overweight adults, and close to a third of obese men and women, have normal blood pressure, cholesterol and other measures of heart health.

Researchers from the University of Michigan also found that close to a quarter of U.S. adults in the recommended-weight range had risk factors for heart disease or diabetes. That means some 16 million of them are at risk for heart problems, the study said