Device acts like support hose to help weak hearts pump blood
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A study finds a polyester mesh stocking pulled up over the wide bottom of a weak heart can help it pump better and even shrink back to a more normal size.
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Scientists have found a molecule they believe will protect and promote the survival of heart cell muscles, raising hopes of a treatment to repair the damage after a heart attack.
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A Massachusetts company gets a humanitarian exemption to sell gadgets that act like an artificial heart, but don't last as long. They are only approved for patients close to death.
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A "smart" shirt, incorporating stainless steel threads, has been developed by European scientists to monitor heart patients on the move.
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A device to send heart test results down the phone line for analysis could save the NHS millions, a trial suggests.
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An implanted wireless device did not keep enough patients with weak hearts out of the hospital to prove its effectiveness.
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Doctors are to trial a new type of heart pump to help people with heart failure.
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New research suggests that more people survive major heart attacks with fewer problems if doctors use a mini-vacuum to clear out an artery blockage instead of pushing it aside to restore blood flow.
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The latest advance in heart failure treatment is a kind of support hose for the heart, an elastic mesh sleeve that squeezes enlarged hearts into a more normal
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Fridge magnets and decorative jewellery could be a killer if you have a weak heart, experts warn.
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Some people with heart failure might benefit from a therapy which helps dampen their overactive immune systems.
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NEW YORK  - In patients with heart failure, aerobic training can help the organ pump better, investigators report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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NEW ORLEANS - More than five million Americans suffer from heart failure, a debilitating condition in which the heart fails to pump enough blood, starving the body of oxygen and leading to weakness, chest pain and, eventually, death.
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MONTREAL - A company in Quebec has invented a device to detect the earliest signs of a heart attack and send the information to medics before the patient realizes anything is wrong.
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Needle-phobic children and their stressed-out parents may catch a break with a Franklin firm&#39;s device that makes it faster and easier to apply local pain relief.
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Electrolyte flows in and out. It's a handy concept.
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I guess I'm the bad boy of heart attack survivors. Mine played like low comedy from the start. It felt not like shearing pain; I had no revelations of mortality and sense of endtimes and lost opportunities. Actually, it seemed Bill Clinton was sitting on my chest playing the saxophone.