Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Congestive heart failure (CHF), often called heart failure, occurs when the heart ...

Scientists discovered that the heart contains its own nervous system, called a "mini-brain." This system controls the ...

Each day, our hearts beat 100,000 times to pump eight pints of blood (give or take) around our body, delivering oxygen and ...

Sudden cardiac arrest may occur in various conditions when someone, while active (playing basketball or walking with friends) ...

Learn how regular exercise can effectively lower blood pressure and improve cardiovascular health through scientifically ...

The therapy increases the amount of blood the heart can pump and dramatically improves survival, in what a paper describing ...

The S3 heart sound is essentially blood rushing into a specific chamber. Learn how this sound correlates to congestive heart ...

The minimally invasive Impella 5.5 and Impella CP are designed to be threaded up through the blood vessels into the heart, ...

Johnson & Johnson today announced the FDA has expanded its approval of Impella heart pumps to treat specific pediatric ...

A new gene therapy can reverse the effects of heart failure and restore heart function in a large animal model.