People with anxiety or depression are most likely to mistake panic for atrial fibrillation.

Female heart disease patients under 50 were 4 times more likely than male peers to show effects.

If you need a new heart, you want Dr. Gonzo leading the search. The charismatic head of the transplant team at Baylor takes chances on donors others doctors don't want, while maintaining the same survival rate. Here is an exclusive inside look at how he does it. By Matt Goodman. (March, 2016)

Cancer has passed heart disease as the leading cause of death in nearly half of U.S. states, according to a new report.

As experts clash over proposals that millions more of us take statins to prevent heart disease and stroke, a vascular surgeon explains why he feels better without them

Find out which drugs and supplements injury the heart muscle, impair responses to heart failure therapies, and exacerbate the disease.

People living with heart failure share what they’ve learned about the condition.

Doctors thought the onset of menopause increased women’s risk of heart disease. New research shows the trouble starts even earlier.

Your heart relies on electrical impulses to keep it beating at a steady pace. Problems with this electrical system can cause abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias. The defective impulses may cause the heart to beat too slowly or too fast, or to beat in a disorganized and chaotic manner. Some of these different types of arrhythmias can be incredibly dangerous if not properly treated, while others may be annoying but are not life-threatening.

When a heart beats, blood is pushed through the body, causing a change in blood pressure and a pulse in main arteries. In healthy individuals, this means the heart rate is often synchronized with the pulse. However, heart rate and pulse rate are technically different because a heart rate measures the rate of contractions (heart beats) of the heart, whereas a pulse rate measures the rate of palpable blood pressure increases throughout the body.

Sleep deprivation and an abnormal sleep cycle may increase the risk of heart disease, especially for shift workers, a small study suggests.

Angioplasty is a procedure often used to treat unstable angina or certain types of heart attack. Learn how angioplasty and stenting clears blockages in the heart.

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Vitamin D supplements may help people with diseased hearts, a study suggests. A trial on 163 heart failure patients found supplements of the vitamin, which is made in the skin when exposed to sunlight, improved their hearts' ability to pump blood around the body. The Leeds Teaching Hospitals team, who presented at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology, described the results as "stunning".

It’s the closest we've come to growing transplantable hearts in the lab. By Alexandra Ossola. (Mar. 16)

Visionary street artist Lonac is the talented individual behind this impressive hand-painted heart. He strategically placed his design between the air ducts which flow in and out of the building. By doing so he created the illusion of the aorta that passes blood through the heart itself.

What looks like a prop from a steampunk movie is actually a partially decellularised heart in a bioreactor.

It was way past midnight, and she still couldn't fall asleep..

John McCafferty, the world's longest-living heart transplant recipient, has died 33 years after his operation. His surgeon, Sir Magdi Yacoub, said that he hadn't thought the donor heart would last more than five years. John's wife, Ann, said that they had had a wonderful life together but that John had been very ill before his operation.

When your heart breaks … (Literally).“You can die of a broken heart — it's scientific fact. A sudden temporary weakening of the muscular portion of the heart, this weakening can be triggered by emotional stress, such as the death of a loved one, a break-up, or constant anxiety, it is also known as broken-heart syndrome.