More than 64 million people worldwide live with heart failure, including 6.7 million Americans. Current treatment primarily ...

The SGLT2 inhibitor medicines have changed how heart failure is managed. Originally sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors were used to lower blood sugar levels in people who have type 2 ...

Researchers at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, and the University of Utah School of Medicine, have demonstrated that a gene therapy can ...

A new gene therapy can reverse the effects of heart failure and restore heart function in a large animal model. The therapy increases the amount of blood the heart can pump and dramatically improves ...

How Does Jardiance Work for Heart Failure? Jardiance helps to lower the workload on the heart. Normally, the kidneys filter in a way that keeps all of the sugar in the bloodstream rather than allowing ...

These two conditions affect how well your heart can pump blood. Cardiomyopathy can sometimes lead to heart failure. Cardiomyopathy and heart failure are both conditions in which your heart has a more ...

The effective use of electronic patient records (EPR), in secondary care, to deliver clinical workflows represents a transformative step for our healthcare system. Hear from heart failure specialists ...

Androgen deprivation therapy was associated with a 72 percent higher risk of heart failure in a study of patients with prostate cancer. In The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology study, incidence rates ...

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is a condition that causes the heart to beat rapidly and irregularly. This can lead to heart failure, which develops when the heart is not pumping blood efficiently around ...

When the heart can no longer pump blood efficiently throughout the body, kidney function issues are among the first complications to develop. Congestive heart failure (CHF), a condition that reflects ...

Doctors have known about medicines that might help stop VF, but many of them are too dangerous to use outside hospitals. One ...