More Heart Failure News

• Poorer Blood Pressure Control in Blacks With Heart Failure

  Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Rates of high blood pressure among heart failure patients vary ...

• Test Spots Who Should Get Implanted Defibrillator

  Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- A simple test can give cardiologists guidance about whether they ...

• Defibrillator Use Urged to Save Children's Lives

  Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- The emergency defibrillators now commonly found in airports and other ...

• Study Supports Controversial Heart Failure Drug

  Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- A new study supporting the safety of Natrecor, a widely ...

• FDA to Review Clotting Drug After Trial Suggests Death Risk

  Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it ...

• Drug Lessens Heart Attack Injury

  Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- A type of drug called human atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) ...

• America's Top Hospitals Are Real Lifesavers

  Oct. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Patients in the top-ranked hospitals in the United States are ...

• Diabetes Drugs Boost Heart Failure But Not Death

  THURSDAY, Sept. 27 (HealthDay News) -- The widely used diabetes drugs Avandia and Actos increase ...

• Guidelines Seek to Boost Study of Critically Ill

  Sept. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Heart experts have released new recommendations designed to increase the ...

• Drug-Coated Stents Go Head to Head

  Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A survey of trials of drug-coated stents finds that those ...

• Beta Blocker Doesn't Help Children With Heart Failure

  Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Carvedilol, a newer member of the beta blocker drug family ...

• Diabetes Drug Avandia Boosts Heart Risks: Study

  Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) -- A controversial drug called Avandia, used by millions of diabetics ...

• Weight Gain May Spell Trouble for Heart Failure Patients

  Sept. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Short-term weight gain can signal worsening outcomes for heart failure ...

• New Heart Pump Shows Promise in Trial

  Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) -- A new kind of heart pump helped patients with heart ...

• Embryonic Human Stem Cells May Help Repair Heart Muscle, Lab Study Shows

  Aug. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Experiments in rats show that human embryonic stem cells can ...

• Avandia to Carry Stronger Heart Failure Warning

  August 15 (HealthDay News) -- The widely used but controversial diabetes drug Avandia will now ...

• U.S. Heart Failure Program Is Saving Lives

  July 24 (HealthDay News) -- A national program to improve heart-failure patient care in U.S. ...

• Better Grasp of Health Info May Boost Life Span

  July 24 (HealthDay News)-- Being better able to read and understand health-related information might help ...

• Better Hospital Care Means More Lives Saved

  July 18 (HealthDay News) -- American patients are less likely to die if cared for ...