Simple ankle swelling test detects fluid retention; persistent oedema may indicate heart, kidney problems which needs medical review.

Former University of Kentucky football lineman Ben Christman died from an undetected heart condition. His dad is advocating ...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels that include coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, rheumatic heart disease, and other conditions.

A Wisconsin woman who admitted she broke a 9-month old baby’s leg at a Woodbury day care center was sentenced to serve 45 days in jail in a plea agreement Monday afternoon. Chantelle Michelle Cheri ...

Sofia Tepichin was about 30 minutes into her club soccer team practice in October when she spotted a fast-approaching defender. She tapped the ball away and hopped over the defender’s outstretched ...

A growing team of Melbourne doctors are on a mission to reframe the way we think about health — and they want to make it accessible for everyone.

Current models of mortality risk after heart failure (HF) rely primarily on cardiac-specific clinical variables and may underestimate risk in elderly East Asian patients. Researchers from Japan used ...

Juntendo University researchers have trained a machine learning algorithm to use clinical information and physical function metrics to accurately estimate long-term survival odds of elderly patients ...

Objectives To assess health-related quality of life (HRQoL), treatment satisfaction and associated factors among older adults with acute heart failure in Northwest Ethiopia. Design Prospective, ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, according to a new statistical report from the American Heart Association. Cardiovascular diseases, which include heart disease ...

Heart racing. Palms clammy. Breath shaky and sporadic. You’re probably well-acquainted with the body’s stress response, a.k.a. fight-or-flight, aptly nicknamed for what it has evolved over millennia ...