The woman's doctors checked her heart function with an echocardiogram, which uses ultrasound to visualize blood flow through ...

A new study has found that, for most of us, the fiber we eat can protect our heart health, lowering the risk of high blood ...

Large-scale genetic testing turned up pathogenic variants for inherited cardiomyopathies in a meaningful proportion of the ...

Cardiovascular disease and kidney disease are two of the most urgent issues in global public health. In the United States ...

Research shows that South Asians represent about a quarter of the world’s population but account for more than half of heart disease cases. UCLA's program was designed with South Asian culture in mind ...

Heart disease refers to any problem affecting the ... This condition usually develops when a genetic problem affects the heart muscle. It tends to be an inherited condition. The walls of the ...

What if the secret to staying young wasn't another costly cream or trendy supplement, but tamping down a messy kind of cell ...

Blake Shore is an 11-year-old boy from Thomasville who was born with a rare genetic disease. He also has a kidney condition, and it’s causing him to be in serious ...

In the 30-year follow-up period, about 3,700 women met the criteria for healthy aging. That was defined as living past 70, being free from 11 major chronic diseases and having no troubles with ...

An aneurysm causes the aortic wall — the aorta is the largest artery in the body — to weaken or bulge. A severe aortic ...

High-profile individuals to have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s include former US president George HW Bush, Back to the ...

It was 2006 when Dr. Daniel Gibbs first noticed he was losing his sense of smell. But it wasn't what he didn't smell that tipped him off that something might be wrong.