CHICAGO - A large study offers the strongest evidence yet that a diet the government recommends for lowering blood pressure can save people from heart attack and stroke.

LONDON - While being fat increases your chances of a heart attack, some studies suggest a puzzling paradox: Obese people seem to have a better chance of surviving one.

LOS ANGELES - Actress Shelley Winters, who won two Academy Awards and was nominated twice more, was recovering in a hospital after suffering a heart attack, her family said Wednesday.

A security guard for Desert Vista High School was found dead on the school’s track just before 5 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

A security guard for Desert Vista High School was found dead on the school’s track just before 5 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

Jeffrey J. Fine, M.S., Ph.D., will discuss heart attack prevention through coronary calcium scoring. Fine’s expertise is in the field of coronary artery disease, heart attack prevention, and coronary calcium scoring.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran will "blow up the heart of Israel" if the United States or the Jewish state attacked it first, a top official with Iran's most powerful military force - the Revolutionary Guard - warned Friday.

BOSTON - Boston Celtics general manager Danny Ainge has been hospitalized after suffering what the team described as a minor heart attack.

A Peoria man is the focus of a case study after an unusual sports injury caused him to have a heart attack.

Six weeks ago, while working in his Apache Junction home office, Richard Rollins felt an unfamiliar pain gripping his chest. His initial response was to drive himself to the nearest hospital. Then, reason took over.

Tim Russert’s death from a sudden heart attack at 58 sent a shudder down the spines of hundreds who suffer from coronary artery disease.

LOS ANGELES - The publicist for Kelsey Grammer says the actor has returned home from the hospital, four days after suffering a mild heart attack.

WASHINGTON - Tim Russert, who pointedly but politely questioned hundreds of the powerful and influential as moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press," died Friday of an apparent heart attack. The network's Washington bureau chief was 58.

LOS ANGELES - A spokesman for Kelsey Grammer says the "Frasier" star is recovering in a Hawaii hospital after a mild heart attack this weekend. Stan Rosenfield says Grammer is "resting comfortably" in an undisclosed hospital after being stricken Saturday. Rosenfield says the 53-year-old actor will be released early this week.

A well-known Arizona author, editor and cartoonist had a heart attack Saturday while rehearsing for his band’s 45th year reunion.