Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome affecting around 70 million individuals globally. It has a prevalence of 2% in ...

Researchers have identified two proteins that play fundamental roles in heart size and function and have genetically uncoupled them, a discovery the scientists hope will lead to better treatments for ...

In a pilot study of people living with HIV or high levels of cholesterol, researchers found that a six-week course of a cholesterol-lowering medication improved the function of the coronary arteries ...

Researchers have shown that when parts of a genome known as enhancers are missing, the heart works abnormally, a finding that bolsters the importance of DNA segments once considered “junk” because ...

In a clinical study, scientists from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital found that the hunger hormone ghrelin can increase the heart's ability to pump blood in people ...

Capricor Therapeutics said Wednesday that its cell therapy significantly improved muscle and heart function in patients with ...

Breathlessness while bending may signal weakened heart function, a subtle early warning that doctors urge people not to ...

Pneumonia is a disease that burdens the healthcare system with more that 1.2 million emergency room visits each year and more ...

Patients with severe heart and lung failure now have a greater chance of recovery thanks to the availability and advanced use ...