Minimally invasive valve repair lowers hospitalizations in heart failure patients
At two years of follow-up, patients with a poorly functioning tricuspid valve in the heart who received optimal…
COVID Vaccines Did Not Raise Sudden Death Risk in Healthy Young People
Image via Unsplash. Triggering sudden deaths in healthy young people was one of the most explosive accusations lodged…
New mother’s experience highlights importance of postpartum heart care
At 35, Brooklyn resident Luyba Caloras was healthy, with no history of heart problems and no reason to…
Updated heart guidelines urge earlier screening for high blood cholesterol
For the first time since 2018, a clinical guideline from the American College of Cardiology and the American…
Living Heart Project Builds Virtual Twins for Medicine
One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children’s Hospital more…
Alcohol health risks depend on beverage type and consumption habits
While high alcohol intake has been associated with worse health outcomes regardless of the type of alcohol consumed,…
Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year? | MIT News
Characterized by weakened or damaged heart musculature, heart failure results in the gradual buildup of fluid in a…
Multiview deep learning improves detection of major cardiac conditions from echocardiography
Cohort selection and data sources Our UCSF echocardiogram dataset comprised studies acquired on adult patients at UCSF between…
Early menopause linked to higher lifetime heart disease risk
Women who enter natural menopause before age 40 face about a 40% higher lifetime risk of developing coronary…
Shingles vaccine linked to lower risk of serious cardiac events
People with heart disease who received a shingles vaccine had nearly half the rate of serious cardiac events…
Sutter Health expands cardiology services in Santa Rosa with $16.4 million renovation for new care center
In little more than a decade, the doctors, nurses and medical assistants who power Sutter Health’s cardiology center…
Remote ischemic conditioning shields the heart from chemotherapy damage
Advances in cancer treatment mean that more people than ever are surviving the disease. However, some of the…