Self-care is a crucial part of managing heart failure and boosting quality of life. Here are some tips on what you should and ...

A research team led by Matthew Nystoriak, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical research and translational medicine at ...

Newer therapies for multiple conditions were major stories this year, but long-term HF survival gains seem to have vanished.

A cohort study found that patients with rheumatoid arthritis had an increased risk for heart failure, particularly with ...

Heart failure has historically been irreversible, but the outcome of a new study suggests that could someday change. At the University of Utah, scientists used a new gene therapy that was shown to ...

Currently, heart failure is irreversible. In the absence of a heart transplant, most medical treatments aim to reduce the stress on the heart and slow the progression of the often-deadly disease ...

Medically reviewed by Angela Ryan Lee, MD Heart failure occurs when the heart can't pump blood as well as it should. It can ...

The following is a summary of “Safety of Diltiazem for Acute Management of Atrial Fibrillation (AF) in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction in the Emergency Department,” published ...

Congestive heart failure (CHF), often called heart failure, occurs when the heart is too weak to pump enough blood to the rest of the body. Damage to the heart muscle from a heart condition ...

A new gene therapy can reverse the effects of heart failure and restore heart function in a large animal model. The therapy increases the amount of blood the heart can pump and dramatically improves ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband is 73 and was diagnosed with heart failure and a severely dilated left ventricle. At the time, he was pumping 10 liters per minute. He had a proBNP natriuretic peptide ...

New research shows the gene therapy didn't just prevent heart failure from worsening in four lab pigs, but actually prompted hearts to repair and grow stronger. Advertisement "Even though the ...