Working in high temperatures increases the risk of suffering a heart attack, researchers have said.
For the first time, doctors have tied infection with the Zika virus to possible new heart problems in adults.
Pacemakers may fail to properly regulate patients' heartbeats near certain appliances and tools that generate electric and magnetic fields, a German study suggests.
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) contributes to nearly 6 million annual deaths in the United States, and standard treatments for the condition— which is linked to obesity, stroke, heart disease and diabetes— are only effective about 70 percent of the time. But researchers at the Ohio State University are trying to improve those numbers by studying cardiac disease in live human donor hearts and creating 3-D maps to better personalize ablation therapy, a common treatment for AFib.
But results may not be lasting, and patients may still need to take medications
Scientists have developed a robotic sleeve that can help hearts pump when they are failing.
The effect of constant stress on a deep-lying region of the brain explains the increased risk of heart attack, a study in The Lancet suggests.
Jazan Health Affairs General Directorate has recently succeeded to conduct the first Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery to a patient in his sixties at the Consultancy Center of King Faisal Medical City (KFMC) for Southern Regions.
A cheap blood test can predict which apparently healthy patients are at high risk of a heart attack.
A cheap blood test can predict which apparently healthy patients are at high risk of a heart attack.
