Despite showing no overall benefit, the in-home paramedic visit appeared to help women avoid readmissions more than men.

A new study that looked at how liberal vs. restrictive fluid restriction impacts health status for patients with chronic ...

Your average daily heart rate is a useful metric; so is your daily step count. Combining the two might be even better.

More than 56 million people globally live with heart failure (HF), which prevents the body from getting enough of the oxygen-rich blood it needs to work properly.

After six days in the hospital, Punturi was sent home with medicine, but on Sept. 8 as he was watching the Steelers beat the ...

The man, who was in his 40s and suffering from severe heart failure, was also the first person to leave the hospital with a ...

Patients who have been treated for heart failure and experience an improvement in their pump function are still at higher risk of heart-related death or hospitalization if they stop taking heart ...

Heart failure is a major health concern, especially for aging populations-it significantly increases mortality rates, and severely impacts quality of life for those affected. Exercise therapy has been ...

installing the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart into a man suffering from severe heart failure. Though the man wasn’t the first human to receive the technology, he was the first to live with it ...

For decades, replacing a failing human heart meant waiting—often desperately—for a donor. But in a hospital in Sydney, that paradigm has begun to shift. Last November, surgeons at St Vincent’s ...

Some people will also feel more tired (fatigued) than usual. Diastolic heart failure is when diastolic dysfunction gets so bad that a person starts having symptoms of heart failure. At first, ...