Kawasaki disease (KD), an acute self-limited febrile illness that primarily affects children <5 years old, is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in developed countries, with the potential of ...

Advances are helping people born with heart defects to make it into adulthood and retirement age. Medical care hasn't kept up ...

As physicians we take an oath to do no harm, yet are trapped providing care in a system that leaves patients confined and at ...

Other heart conditions besides CAD can also lead to sudden death. For instance, heart failure, where the heart doesn’t pump ...

Some patients with advanced heart failure can benefit from the support of a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device ...

Adding an extra hour every week of physical activity may lower the chance of developing the most common type of irregular heartbeat (arrythmia) by 11%, a study shows.

New research links constipation with increased heart risks, especially in people with high blood pressure. Experts interpret ...

Four new research papers highlight ways that health disparities appear commonly in cardiac care. Here is what they found, according to a Nov. 11 report from Stat: ...

Beta blockers are go-to meds for many people who've survived a heart attack, but might not be needed for patients whose ...

According to Leissner's team, that's especially true for folks who have survived a heart attack but whose cardiac pumping ...

Nasty Nes Rodriguez, better known as the Crazy Pinoy, helped cement the West Coast’s Hip-Hop legacy. Now, after suffering from a heart attack, kidney failure, and pneumonia, the pioneering DJ finds ...

All patients who have had a heart attack are typically treated using beta blockers. According to a recent study, this drug is unlikely to be needed for those heart patients who have a normal pumping ...