The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety warning for birth control pills containing drospirenone . Birth control containing this synthetic hormone may put women at increased risk for blood clots.

Having a brother or sister who has suffered from a stroke can exponentially increase your risk of having a stroke -- especially if the sibling suffered a stroke when they were younger than 55.

Certain easy-to-watch factors may predict which stroke patients are at risk of being rehospitalized. Pinpointing those factors can help doctors treat or more closely watch those at the highest risk.

Men with diabetes may be at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, even if they have no other risk factors. The risk is for diabetic men on insulin therapy and was not as high for men using other therapies for diabetes.

Diabetes puts you at risk for a number of complications. Your risk of complications may be even greater the longer you have the disease. That is why it is important to spot and treat diabetes early.

Brilinta ( ticagrelor ), a blood thinner approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last summer, has been found to not only reduce first time cardiovascular events, but also to lower recurrent heart events or deaths.

Following a heart attack, most patients can expect to take a blood thinner and aspirin to reduce their future cardiovascular risk. Recent findings suggest varying doses of aspirin successfully lower this risk.

As patients are living longer, the need to assess heart treatments for the elderly has increased. Investigators have found that placing a stent in the neck's carotid artery of patients over the age of 70 is both safe and effective.

Feeling a sense of disinterest or hopelessness after a stroke? It may be depression. Stroke or mini stroke survivors are more likely to become depressed as compared to the general population.

When it comes to identifying strokes in emergency situations, paramedics are usually right when they pinpoint a patient suspected of having a stroke. A recent study revealed they could predict them with accuracy of 99.3 percent.