Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Living with heart failure requires careful monitoring as well as some major ...

In 2021,138,825 people died from COPD in the U.S., making it the sixth overall leading cause of death and the fifth ...

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is associated with frequent hospitalizations and high mortality. It affects more than 5 million individuals in the USA, and another 660,000 new cases are diagnosed each ...

Most people know that the risk factors for heart disease are high blood pressure, smoking, raised cholesterol and being ...

Beta blockers have been shown to prolong survival in chronic heart failure. It is currently a matter of debate whether any β blocker is superior to the other in terms of improving symptoms ...

Newer therapies for multiple conditions were major stories this year, but long-term HF survival gains seem to have vanished.

People with chronic kidney disease or those at risk of heart failure are greatly affected by potassium imbalances in the body ...

Scientists from The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University have found evidence suggesting a possible causal ...

The antiviral drug nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) was linked to a lower risk of hospitalization within 30 days and major ...

The explosive rise of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic has brought an accompanying challenge: logistics too knotty for a single ...

Encouraging primary care physicians to screen patients for physical inactivity with a simple questionnaire can help identify ...