DENVER — Heart disease in young people is certainly possible. Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) can affect kids, adolescents and young adults. It occurs in about 2 out of every 1,000 people. SVT ...

A potentially life-changing heart condition, dilated cardiomyopathy, can be caused by the cumulative influence of hundreds or thousands of genes and not just by a single 'aberrant' genetic variant, as ...

Heart disease is a group of conditions that affect the cardiovascular system, which includes the heart and blood vessels. The early signs and symptoms of heart disease can vary depending on the type a ...

A new approach to identifying and defining heart failure among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) involves combining information gleaned from reviewing their electronic medical ...

In the summer of 1967, three of the four cardiac surgeons competing to perform the first human heart transplant were simultaneously just hours from their place in the history books. But each was ...