As women, we navigate many profound transitions throughout our lives, and few are as significant as menopause. Often, our attention during this phase is drawn to familiar symptoms like hot flashes, ...

One in three Americans are affected by heart disease. Essentia Health is providing a better understanding of heart disease with their annual symposium on heart failure. Essentia Health’s heart failure ...

Can the heart physiology of zebrafish help treat human heart conditions? This is what a recent study published in Biology Open hopes to address as a team of researchers from the University of Utah ...

My son, Jared, was born with a congenital heart condition — three major things wrong — with the most striking, a single ventricle. The wall was completely missing between the bottom two chambers of ...

Heart failure, a pervasive health concern affecting diverse populations, has recently drawn attention for its nuanced connection to stress and weight, notably among Black women. Chronic stress and ...

Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists -- so far. A new multi-chamber ...

When James Martinez stepped into his doctor’s office for a routine checkup last spring, he never expected a number would change his life. At age 42, his dangerously high cholesterol levels presented ...

Heart cancer is a rare and serious condition in which abnormal cells grow uncontrollably on or near the heart, forming a tumor. Unlike more common cancers affecting the lungs, breast, or colon, heart ...

A cardiac stress test shows how your heart works during physical activity. Vienybe/Dreamstime/TNS Heart health is an essential part of your overall health and well-being. Your primary care provider ...

The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist that pumps blood around the body. When the heart is functioning properly, it has a specific rhythm controlled by a mass of specialized heart tissue ...

Darrell Dixon's father was just 25 when he had a major heart attack in the rural Mississippi Delta. By his early 40s, a series of additional attacks had left his heart muscle too weak to pump enough ...

Screening for genes involved in congenital heart disease has come one step closer with funding for a research project from the University of Manchester that will use machine learning to predict which ...