When compared to lifetime abstainers, light to moderate alcohol drinkers had a reduced risk of greater than 20 percent for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD)-specific mortality, according to data from more than 30,000 deaths in the United States.

Three college buddies have big plans for a 21st century upgrade to the traditional stethoscope. Tyler Crouch and two classmates from the University of California, Berkeley have Eko Devices, a company that has raised nearly $5 million and sold 6,000 digital stethoscopes.

Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation® announced it has enrolled the first-in-the-world patient in a clinical study to evaluate a minimally invasive clip-based repair system made by Abbott (a company based near Chicago), for treating people with moderate or severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR), a common condition affecting the right side of the heart.

All sizes of the Portico TAVR system resulted in effective and safe short-term treatment of high-risk patients, according to a new study.

Potentially modifiable midlife vascular risk factors could be associated with dementia later in life, according to a study.

Complex fractionated atrial electrograms (CFAE) ablations and continuous electrical activity (CEA) ablations have been proposed or the treatment of persistent atrial fibrillation (AFib). But a new study suggests targeting bipolar electrograms with less fractionation. According to the researchers, these may be better targets because they are more likely to be focal electrical sources.

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) heightens stroke risk—but new research shows that this is true only in people with certain aortic shapes. Those with aortic arches that are less curved are more prone to stroke, according to a study published online Aug. 1 in Nature.

In the U.S., the state where a person is born has long lasting consequences for his or her risk of dementia in later life, according to a new study—the first to examine the connection between birthplace and dementia risk during old age, according to its authors.