Blood pressure and heart rate (pulse) are two important vital signs measured during a healthcare visit. Blood pressure (BP) is a measure of the force of blood on the blood vessel walls. Blood vessels ...

In addition to regular exercise and not smoking, diet is one of the best ways to protect your heart. That’s because inflammation, blood pressure, cholesterol, and other heart disease risk ...

Cardiac hypertrophy is the abnormal enlargement, or thickening, of the heart muscle, resulting from increases in cardiomyocyte size and changes in other heart muscle components, such as ...

LA Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh is having a cardiac ablation during the offseason. It's a procedure to treat an irregular heart rhythm. The procedure involves creating tiny scars in the heart that ...

It comes just weeks after the 88-year-old struck his chin on his nightstand in an apparent fall which resulted in a bad bruise ... using the head and the heart, not the legs.' ...

The Senate’s confirmation hearing of Russell Vought, one of Washington’s staunchest advocates for cutting spending, offered a preview Wednesday of the bruising spending wars likely to consume ...

Coronary artery bypass surgery is a procedure to treat coronary heart disease. There are various types, including multiple bypass and minimally invasive. The medical name for coronary artery or ...

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Experiences with 450 transseptal left heart catheterizations are reviewed. There were no mortalities in this series, and the only significant complication was accidental puncture of the aorta in three ...

The rise of one-day cricket meant that accuracy was paramount and with leg spin bowling such an incredibly tough art to master, the wrist-spinners were being given the flick. And then along came ...

AUSTIN — Newly elected Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, struck a conciliatory tone in his victory speech after defeating David Cook, R-Mansfield in what split the GOP. He told ...