A new heart saved her – and it came with the name of the teen who gave it
Aug 20, 2019
After a heart transplant transformed her life, an Arizona woman honors the donor who made it possible.
Heart Failure News
A daughter makes lifesaving plea to 911: Coach me through CPR?
Aug 12, 2019
After her mother's heart stopped, a woman's CPR training kicked in – with guidance from a 911 dispatcher.
Here's how many years you could gain by keeping heart disease at bay
Jul 25, 2019
While progress has been made in the fight against heart disease, the number of years of life lost is staggering. Some disturbing trends also point toward possible solutions.
Where there's wildfire smoke, there may be heart problems
Jul 22, 2019
Wildfires are expected to burn hotter and more frequently, posing health risks, especially for people with heart conditions.
Doctors shrugged off athlete's gasping, until one heart surgeon listened
Jul 3, 2019
A woman's fitness helped hide a silent but astonishing heart defect until she was 45.
This faulty gene may help predict heart muscle disease
Jun 20, 2019
Starting with genetic sequence information, researchers found that people with certain mutations were more likely to develop dilated cardiomyopathy.
Diabetes and heart failure are linked; treatment should be too
Jun 6, 2019
A new report looks at the connection between diabetes and heart failure – and how managing one condition can impact treatment of the other.
As HIV patients live longer, heart disease might be their next challenge
Jun 3, 2019
No longer viewed as terminal, HIV does have other significant challenges, such as increasing the risk for heart disease and stroke, according to a new report.
Report seeks answers about mysterious, dangerous heart disease in kids
May 28, 2019
Cardiomyopathy in kids is rare but results in "some of the worst pediatric cardiology outcomes," a new scientific statement says.
Potentially fatal buildup of proteins in the heart often goes undiagnosed
May 21, 2019
A condition that allows a potentially fatal buildup of abnormal proteins in the heart and other organs is underdiagnosed and undertreated, a new study says.