Alexandria Nyembwe is a registered nurse and health writer. She has worked in street medicine serving populations experiencing homelessness in Skid Row Los Angeles as well as in cardiovascular care in ...

An organoid model of the human heart provides insights into the pathology of diabetes-induced heart defects in newborns. Researchers from Michigan State University (MI, USA) have used human heart ...

New ACC/AHA guidelines update management of adults with congenital heart defects but highlight the shortage of specialists ...

As a cardiologist, I see this far too often: women come to us later in the course of heart disease, sometimes after weeks or ...

Each 10 additional firearm incidents a person is exposed to increases their odds of dying from a stress-related cardiovascular event by nearly 2%. Being exposed to gun violence increases the odds of ...

A review by the American Heart Association Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Committee strengthens the case that keeping our gums healthy helps protect against heart disease. Informed by a decade's ...

Heart disease is a type of cardiovascular disease that affects the heart’s structure and function. Several different heart conditions fall under the umbrella term for heart disease. The most common ...

Infants of mothers with diabetes have a three- to five-fold increased risk of congenital heart defects. Such developmental defects are likely caused by a combination of genetic and environmental ...

A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association warns that these disruptions can seriously affect our health.

The diagnosis was made after an initial evaluation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and follow-up visits to the Mayo Clinic and New Jersey's Atlantic Health/Morristown Medical Center. The ...