More than six million Americans are living with heart failure and over 900,000 new cases are being diagnosed each year. By ...

This month: shorter recovery after TAVI, Down syndrome CV insights, the benefits of brisker walking, and more.

The doctor, whose social media videos covering a number of health-related topics regularly go viral, said: "If, every once in a while, you're lying on your side and you hear your heart beating, it's ...

This article was originally posted Dec. 8, 2014. It has been updated. There are many things in medicine that are merely a matter of preference or style. How to check a patient’s pulse is not one ...

European research led by University College London (UCL), together with Amsterdam UMC and the University of Basel, shows that ...

European research led by University College London (UCL), together with Amsterdam UMC and the University of Basel shows that a significant proportion of patients who suffer a stroke due to carotid ...

A risky carotid artery operation, currently still the standard treatment for many patients, may then no longer be necessary for this group of patients. This research, published today in the Lancet ...

Atherosclerosis of the extracranial internal carotid artery (ICA) causes 10–20% of ischaemic strokes.1 As luminal stenosis of the ICA grows, the risk of ischaemic stroke increases,2 and removal of the ...

The most effective treatment for carotid artery stenosis is carotid endarterectomy (CEA). To date, randomized trials of this procedure versus best medical care have excluded patients aged 80 years ...

Three workers were killed and two others injured when a steel storage unit for pulses fell on them while they were working at a mill in Maharashtra's Yavatmal district, police said on Wednesday.