About 5.8 million Americans suffer from heart failure with 670,000 new cases diagnosed each year. About 20 percent of those diagnosed die within a year. A new treatment might help better those odds.

The human heart is a complicated mechanism requiring perfect synchronization of numerous functions to keep the body running in tip top shape. This includes the heart where even a small abnormality can cause significant problems.

To many of us complicated medical terminology sounds similar. But in fact many of these terms may lack enough precision or have too much generality, prompting the European Society of Cardiology to call for redefinition.

Atrial Fibrillation is the most common abnormal heart rhythm, affecting about 2.2 million Americans. A report recently submitted suggests that it may in fact emerge as "the new epidemic" in heart disease.

Exercise and a healthy diet are usually enough to promote health and prevent disease. However, it might not be enough to protect from heart disease and type 2 diabetes, a new study has revealed.

Just the thought of a bypass operation is scary for most people. But it may be that lower risk heart patients can opt for a surgery that is just as effective only not as invasive.

Most of us assume if we needed a transfer to a larger hospital for heart attack treatment that it would happen quickly and efficiently. At times the transfers to open blocked arteries happen rapidly.

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Every year tens of thousands of patients seek treatment for cardiac arrest at U.S. hospitals. That number may also be climbing. A study indicates that many of those cases may be preventable.

Some patients with aortic heart valve problems have long been considered untreatable. For one reason or another they were poor candidates for invasive surgery that requires opening the chest.