More Heart Failure News

• Monitoring Protein Didn't Improve Heart Failure Outcomes

  January 27 (HealthDay News) -- Using the biomarker molecule known as brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) ...

• Some Heart Failure Meds May Raise Fracture Risk in Women

  January 27 (HealthDay News) -- The short-term use of heart failure drugs called loop diuretics ...

• Gender May Influence Heart Failure Treatment

  January 22 (HealthDay News) -- Drug treatment for heart failure is influenced by the gender ...

• Kidney, Heart Problems May Be Linked

  January 21 (HealthDay News) -- Damaged kidneys could put older adults at a greater risk ...

• Implanted Defibrillators Benefit Older People

  January 6 (HealthDay News) -- Implanted cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), which deliver an electric shock to ...

• When the Heart Stops Beating

  January 5 (HealthDay News) -- Deanna Babcock's heart stopped beating on July 20, 2007. Just ...

• Heart Failure Accounts for 37% of Medicare Spending

  November 12 (HealthDay News) -- Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure have many more doctor visits ...

• Gains Against Heart Failure Reported

  November 11 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers are reporting new ways to use exercise and medications ...

• Heart Failure Hospitalizations Up Sharply

  November 9 (HealthDay News) -- Hospitalization rates for heart failure among older Americans have increased ...

• Heart Failure Raises Risk of Fractures

  October 20 (HealthDay News) -- People with heart failure face a higher risk of fractures, ...

• U.S. Hospitals Underutilize Proven Heart Failure Therapy

  August 11 (HealthDay News) -- Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) can help heart failure patients' hearts ...

• Patch Helps Mend Damaged Hearts

  July 30 (HealthDay News) -- A mesh patch designed to regenerate cardiac muscle damaged by ...

• Hospitalizations for Heart Failure Skyrocketing

  July 28 (HealthDay News) -- The number of Americans admitted to hospitals for heart failure ...

• Heart Failure Patients Overestimate Their Life Expectancy

  June 3 (HealthDay News) -- For reasons not easily understood, many patients with the worst ...

• Day of Admission Dictates Length of Stay for Heart Failure

  May 21 (HealthDay News) -- Heart failure patients admitted to the hospital on Thursdays or ...

• Two Drugs for Heart Failure Show Mixed Results

  May 21 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies have produced mixed results for two different ...

• Viagra May Protect Hearts of Some Muscular Dystrophy Patients

  May 12 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy often suffer from heart failure, ...

• Noise in Artery Could Warn of Heart Risk

  May 8 (HealthDay News) -- That unusual, harsh sound a doctor can hear when passing ...

• Obesity-Related Inflammation Boosts Heart Risks

  May 6 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity causes prolonged inflammation of heart tissue that in turn ...