People with heart failure don't always experience obvious symptoms. In some cases, they may mistake common signs like fatigue and coughing for another condition, such as a respiratory illness. But you ...

Left-sided heart failure occurs when the left ventricle of the heart is unable to adequately pump blood to the rest of the body. This is the most prevalent type of heart failure and it becomes ...

Heart failure, or congestive heart failure, is a long-term medical condition that occurs when the heart doesn’t pump blood as effectively as it should. When the heart doesn’t pump properly, the ...

Heart attack and heart failure are two distinct but often confused cardiovascular conditions. A heart attack occurs suddenly when blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked, causing tissue ...

Alexandria Nyembwe is a registered nurse and health writer. She has worked in street medicine serving populations experiencing homelessness in Skid Row Los Angeles as well as in cardiovascular care in ...

Some people with heart failure need to take multiple medicines each day in order to keep their symptoms under control. Heart failure not only leads to issues in the heart but other organs in the body ...

Heart failure is one of those conditions that you rarely (or ever) think about—until it personally affects you. Maybe someone you love was recently diagnosed with heart failure or your doctor warned ...

Some people feel uncomfortable sleeping on the left side (if they have heart failure or recent procedures/pacemakers), and may prefer sleeping on the right side, says Puja Mehta, M.D., director of ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this 12-part journey through a disease state ...

When the patient arrived, she was breathing faster than normal and had been progressively tired and sweaty when feeding. Her temperature was 97.7 °F, with pulse of 175, respiration 70, blood pressure ...

Low doses of the injectable weight-loss medication semaglutide may improve symptoms of a hard-to-treat type of heart failure. This effect happened through direct action on the heart muscle and blood ...