Maintaining a stable heartbeat is critical for survival. Your heart must constantly adapt its output to meet changing demands ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, have developed a polymeric biohybrid cardiac device that harnesses the ...

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 ...

Ifetroban significantly improved LVEF in DMD patients, showing a 5.4% improvement compared with propensity-matched natural history controls, with high-dose treatment yielding the most benefit. The ...

Learn when hypertrophic cardiomyopathy becomes severe and how a cardiologist guides you through heart transplant evaluation ...

Heart failure sounds alarming—and rightfully so. Yet approximately 6.5 million Americans currently live with this condition, many with the specific variant called systolic heart failure, and a ...

A made-in-Calgary 4D heart model is transforming treatment for heart failure patients having a specialized pacemaker inserted, called cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). In a clinical trial, ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, and the University of Utah School of Medicine, have demonstrated that a gene therapy can ...

A new MRI method measures cardiac oxygen use in three minutes without catheters or radiation, offering a simpler way to study ...

One in 3 adults reports not getting the approximately seven hours of recommended sleep per night. That may be sustainable for ...