Feeling breathless after walking a few steps? Doctor explains how heart valve disease can cause exertional dyspnea, its ...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels that include coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, rheumatic heart disease, and other conditions.

Shortly after Paxton's death, his family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against surgeon Dr. Ali Khoynezhad and the ...

Latent valvular damage in children often escapes routine detection, as the prevalence of subclinical Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in Meghalaya stands at 4.7 per 1,000, vastly outnumbering clinical ...

Call-out for bold applications to lead the Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund's inaugural flagship Spotlight Program$25 million ...

Early echocardiographic detection improves rheumatic heart disease (RHD) outcomes, but screening in endemic, resource‐limited settings remains a challenge. The Accelerating Delivery of Rheumatic Heart ...

During American Heart Month, doctors are emphasizing prevention, noting that most heart disease cases can be avoided through lifestyle changes and risk management. Heart disease affects about half of ...

A new study out of Northwestern Medicine found that the risk of heart disease starts around age 35 for men. Heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of U.S. deaths. “That timing may seem early, ...

Drug-induced fever is commonly misdiagnosed, particularly in cases of suspected or confirmed infection. A 21-year-old woman developed trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole-induced fever, confirmed by a ...

Dear Doctors: At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to ...

Q At age 51, I was diagnosed with severe rheumatic mitral stenosis. After a second round of tests, treatment was changed from open-heart surgery to balloon valvuloplasty. What can I do to help the ...

Australia's First Nations populations are among the world's highest sufferers of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD), yet only one in five patients received treatment in 2019 ...