What Is Heart Failure? Symptoms, Causes and Treatment The words heart failure can sound final. They are not. Heart failure does not mean that the heart has stopped, or that it is about to stop. It means the heart is not filling with blood or pumping it around the body as effectively as it should. […]

What Is Coronary Heart Disease? Symptoms and Treatment Your heart pumps oxygen-rich blood to the rest of your body. But the heart muscle also needs its own steady blood supply. That supply arrives through the coronary arteries, a network of blood vessels that runs across the surface of the heart. When these arteries cannot deliver […]

Atrial Fibrillation: Symptoms, Stroke Risk and Treatment Most of us imagine a healthy heartbeat as a perfectly steady tick-tock. In reality, the heart is not a metronome. It speeds up when you climb stairs, slows during sleep and responds to stress, illness, medicines and exercise. Atrial fibrillation is different. Often shortened to AF or AFib, […]