New hope offered by a pharmacy team for treating heart disease by sharing insights into the fundamental process of how the heart is formed in utero. From his lab at the University of Houston College ...

Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when you’re relaxing, and sometimes it’s faster when you’re exercising or stressed ...

Intense emotional pain can trigger broken heart syndrome, a condition that weakens the heart muscle. It mimics heart attack ...

Accurately measuring electrical signals and calcium levels in the heart can lead to earlier treatment of potentially fatal conditions, such as heart attack or congestive heart failure. Calcium plays ...

A heart PET scan is a noninvasive imaging test that uses a small amount of radiation. It helps doctors understand how the heart functions and whether it is healthy. Cardiac or heart PET scans create ...

NEW ORLEANS -- A polypill that combines three of the four mainstays of treatment for heart failure with reduced ejection ...

In patients with preserved heart function after a heart attack, beta-blockers did not improve outcomes, according to a ...