A study published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology in June also found that a specific kind of walking can be beneficial for people with coronary artery disease: Nordic walking. According to the ...

February is American Heart Month, with a focus on encouraging all of us to make heart-healthy choices to reduce ...

Maintaining a stable heartbeat is critical for survival. Your heart must constantly adapt its output to meet changing demands for oxygen and nutrients. Traditionally, scientists have attributed this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common adult-onset form of muscular dystrophy and a condition that severely affects multiple organs, including skeletal muscle, heart, brain and the ...

Understanding heart function and disease, as well as testing new drugs for heart conditions, has long been a complex and time-consuming task. A promising way to study disease and test new drugs is to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large new study conducted in Spain and Italy found that beta blockers, drugs often used to slow the heart rate and lower blood ...

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 ...

Lower cardiac output has been tied to poorer cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the temporal lobes of older adults without heart failure, a finding that adds to a growing body of research linking heart ...