Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a heart disease that leads to a stressed, swollen heart muscle. Due to a poor understanding of underlying mechanisms, effective clinical treatments are not available.

New research from a multi-institutional team, published in Nature Cardiovascular Research, reveals that heart failure and atrial fibrillation share underlying genetic and molecular mechanisms, ...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have discovered a mechanism involving ribosomes which helps the heart toggle between a 'regular maintenance mode' for day-to-day ...

Researchers headed by teams at Michigan Medicine and Mayo Clinic have discovered how a molecular process that occurs when donor hearts are preserved in cold storage contributes to failure after ...

Scientists have uncovered a mechanism behind the thickening of the heart muscle wall—a process tied to higher risk of irregular heart rhythms and heart failure. The findings—led by researchers at the ...

Myocarditis is a complication that can occur in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Although the adverse event is rare -- affecting less than 1% of patients given the ...

(Philadelphia, PA) – Therapeutic strategies capable of repairing the heart stand to revolutionize the treatment of heart disease. Reaching that goal, however, requires extensive knowledge of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sudden onset of irregular heart rhythms can be disorienting. wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus Atrial fibrillation, or ...

A panel of medical experts open a discussion surrounding heart failure and its prevalence in health care. Let’s first start by reviewing the different classifications of heart failure per the updated ...