The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

It’s the hardest working muscle in your body. Your heart is what operates your circulatory system. Find out how your heart pumps blood and keeps you alive. Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham ...

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a condition in which the heart does not fill with blood properly. In HFpEF, the heart can pump normally, but the heart is stiff and cannot ...

A local baby born with a severe, life-threatening heart defect has a long road ahead of her that includes multiple open heart ...

A new type of surgically implanted pump that can support a child's failing heart has passed the first stage of human testing in a recent trial. A small, implantable cardiac pump that could help ...

There are new and revised warnings about the instructions for use of a certain type of heart pump that could lead to a risk of heart perforation, according to an alert issued by the pump's ...

Diastolic heart failure means there’s a problem with your heart’s ability to fill with blood. It’s a type of congestive heart failure where your heart cannot work efficiently, leading to fluid ...

If a person has left sided heart failure, the left side of their heart does not fill with enough blood or pump it effectively. Left sided heart failure can lead to right sided heart failure. Heart ...