Dr Wolfson believes taking drugs for the sole purpose of keeping blood pressure in check fails to reduce the risk of heart ...

Could your heart get hooked on blood sugar? Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine think so, and they will determine if blocking that addiction could prevent enlargement of the ...

Heart failure is rising among low-risk individuals. Experts explain hidden causes beyond diabetes and smoking, early warning ...

A new drug has been found to significantly lower blood pressure in people with dangerously high levels despite taking several existing medicines, an advance that could help address hard-to-treat ...

We’ve all been there: The nurse places a blood pressure cuff around your upper arm, squeezes that little bulb that makes the cuff inflate, and voilà—you get a reading. A normal blood pressure ...

Biomedical experts believe that half of heart failure patients likely have low levels of the thyroid hormone T3 in their cardiac tissue. While heart failure symptoms are commonly attributed to ...

Does having a certain blood type put you at higher risk of developing a severe case of Covid-19? A recent report doesn’t have all the answers, but it does offer some clues. The report, which analyzes ...

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is a condition that causes the heart to beat rapidly and irregularly. This can lead to heart failure, which develops when the heart is not pumping blood efficiently around ...

Some people with heart failure need to take multiple medicines each day in order to keep their symptoms under control. Heart failure not only leads to issues in the heart but other organs in the body ...

How Does Jardiance Work for Heart Failure? Jardiance helps to lower the workload on the heart. Normally, the kidneys filter in a way that keeps all of the sugar in the bloodstream rather than allowing ...

The clinical warning “Possible liver failure” indicates that the liver function is deteriorating rapidly, which indicates ...

The patient had been relatively fine for the first 10 days he was down with Covid-19. Just 38, he didn’t fit the description of people at high risk of complications from the new coronavirus. “He had ...