Predicting when a patient is at risk for developing a blood clot can be challenging for physicians, but new research from Johns Hopkins University and Ohio State University delivers a method for precisely identifying those risk factors.

New statistics show the number of people diagnosed with heart failure will rise 46 percent by 2030, a major increase that would result in more than eight million people to be diagnosed with the condition, according to a new report from the American Heart Association.

Despite their well-documented benefits, statins are often discontinued by patients because of their equally acknowledged side effects. This has continued to fuel heated debate over how widespread—or even legitimate—these adverse events are, whether physicians give up too easily on patients who are statin intolerant and what other options exist for patients who could gain by taking their cholesterol-lowering medicine? 

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Minnesota have developed a method to grow heart tissue that can reduce the likelihood of heart failure after a heart attack using 3D-printing technology.

As more individuals are being diagnosed with heart failure, finding effective treatment methods is a priority for physicians and patients. A new study published in the scientific journal Nature Communications may have found a way to create a personalized treatment for the condition.

In response to a study published in JAMA Cardiology last week about a decrease in the number of Hispanics dying from cardiovascular disease, three physicians wrote a commentary explaining the challenges in concluding those findings.

Every year about 2,100 people receive heart transplants in the United States, while 5.7 million suffer from heart failure. Given the scarcity of available donor hearts, clinicians and biomedical engineers from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University have spent several years developing a mechanical alternative.

In the decade since Hurricane Katrina, cardiologists in New Orleans have noticed an uptick in the number of patients suffering from heart attacks.