He was in the late stages of rheumatic heart disease, which kills about 400,000 people a year worldwide. His scheduled heart surgery to address the illness had been postponed a day. By this point, ...

However, Dr Kunal Sarkar, director and head of cardiac surgery at Medica Superspecialty Hospital ... “There are millions with ...

Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health and other government ...

Background To determine the frequency of pregnancy complications and their association with the risk of cardiovascular ...

A Cook County jury awarded $8 million to the family of a 67-year-old woman who died from a pulmonary embolism after a procedure to treat a problematic heart valve was allegedly delayed by her doctors ...

The heart is the most important organ in our body. It continues to work until the end of life and pumps blood to every part ...

New research for the Irish Heart Foundation shows poor awareness among women about their risk of heart disease. Just half of women recognise the symptoms of heart disease and stroke. The research ...

A blood test for cholesterol and inflammation can help predict a person’s long-range risk of heart disease Women with the highest levels ... more than 3,600 of the women had a heart attack or stroke, ...

A patient at Waikato Hospital says he has waited more than a month for cardiac surgery – and has been told to expect at least another three-week wait. Norm Davies suffered a heart attack five ...

Predicting a woman’s future heart disease risk could be as simple as administering a single blood test to screen for three risk factors. That’s according to research published in The New ...

A medication that is currently used for chronic kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes has been found to reduce the risk of worsening heart failure and cardiovascular death in certain ...