Researchers led by Assistant Professor Lynn Yap of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University, ...

A newly discovered communication system in the microscopic “antennae” of cells may help explain how some congenital heart defects develop. When genetic mutations disrupt this system, the effects may ...

Though neither a physiologist nor a physician, William Shakespeare, a master observer, deftly noted the central roles of the ...

Doctors were hopeful the drug, which was being tested in a large clinical trial by Novartis, was going to be a powerful new tool to fight heart disease. By Gina Kolata Novartis announced on Friday ...

“Broken heart syndrome” can mimic a heart attack so closely that patients often need invasive testing to tell the difference. Researchers have now developed the BioTAK score, which combines biological ...

Technology trained on millions of routine ECGs could fast-track high-risk patients for treatment Doctors have developed a “superhuman” AI tool that can spot heart disease in less than two seconds. The ...

Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) reduce mortality in heart failure, but their pharmacological target remains unclear. In this study, we showed that SGLT2i directly activate ...

Getting a shingles vaccine is a smart move for anyone who wants to avoid the painful condition caused by reactivation of the chickenpox virus, varicella-zoster, later in life. But new research ...

Gemma Conroy is a freelance science journalist in Mexico City. The findings are “particularly exciting” because they are more robust than those from previous work 2 on the heart-protective effects of ...

Leading cardiology organizations around the world are having a change of heart. Just five years after the first universal definition of heart failure was published, they are proposing a big update.

When heart attacks (myocardial infarctions) strike, it's because a coronary artery supplying the heart muscle gets blocked, cutting off the oxygen and nutrients the heart needs to keep going. Several ...