The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

Physicians at Emory University Hospital performed the first-ever surgical implantation in the United States of a brand-new type of heart pump designed to help save patients with heart failure, using a ...

Forget expensive supplements; the most powerful tool for your arteries is likely sitting in your kitchen tap. Cardiologists ...

A new type of surgically implanted pump that can support a child's failing heart has passed the first stage of human testing in a recent trial. A small, implantable cardiac pump that could help ...

Dr. Mark Houston, MD, FACP, a cardiologist and the director of the Hypertension Institute, reiterates that water is important ...

There are new and revised warnings about the instructions for use of a certain type of heart pump that could lead to a risk of heart perforation, according to an alert issued by the pump's ...

Abiomed updated warnings on more than 60,000 Impella Left Sided Heart Pumps because the device might cut the wall of the heart’s left ventricle, the FDA said March 21. After 129 serious injuries, ...

Experts say that after age 60, aiming for the classic 120/80 blood pressure reading may not be ideal — stability matters more ...

Nearly 14,000 heart pumps tied to hundreds of injuries and more than a dozen deaths are being recalled, according to federal health officials. The HeartMate II and HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist ...

Researchers have designed a robotic heart-like pump powered by urine. Nov. 8, 2013 — -- A new advance in robotics is putting the Pee in C-3PO. Researchers at the University of the West of England ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common hereditary heart disease worldwide. An international research team is now ...