High school students in South Dakota will soon be required to learn how to perform CPR after the state’s governor, Dennis Daugaard, signed a bill into law making it mandatory statewide.

Laws that prohibit smoking or guard against minors trying cigarettes do in fact prevent heart conditions that lead to heart attacks, reports Salon.

The Mayo Clinic and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are working together to delay and prevent heart failure from hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a rare and complex form of congenital heart disease in children.

Courts in Germany and the United Kingdom have ruled that Edwards Lifesciences infringed on patents related to Boston Scientific’s transcatheter heart valves.

A new study from San Diego State University (SDSU) has revealed information on a heart protein that could play a critical role in the body’s ability to combat heart disease and recover from heart attack.

New research from the Netherlands suggests patients with high blood pressure who actually take their prescribed medications are few and far between, a surprising reality that can be dangerous and deadly for high-risk patients. 

A prospective, single-arm, non-randomized study found that the CoreValve Evolut R device was safe and effective in the short-term in patients with severe aortic stenosis who underwent transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).

Though obesity can have an impact on the risk of an individual developing cardiovascular disease, a sedentary lifestyle could be even more harmful to middle-aged and elderly people, according to new research from the Netherlands.