After letting his health getting out hand and being diagnosed with heart failure, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, pneumonia and kidney disease, James Young, a graphic designer from Detroit, turned his life around to get his heart health back on track, according to an article from the American Heart Association.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will convene a panel of experts on March 22 at a public meeting in Baltimore.

The Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute (TCAI) at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas, is the first facility in the nation to use a new platform designed to treat heart rhythms and arrhythmias.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have discovered new evidence that could help explain why patients who’ve suffered heart attacks go into heart failure.

Between 1999 and 2013, the adjusted rates of hospitalization for atrial fibrillation increased nearly 1 percent year per year among Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, while the median Medicare inpatient expenditure per beneficiary increased from $2,932 to $4,719 per stay.

At least three patients in Los Angeles county had an infection after undergoing cardiac surgery, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) had major improvements in health status 30 days and one year after the procedure, according to an observational cohort study.

Giving children extra minutes at the playground could be good for their arteries, according to new research that suggests intense physical activity could prevent them from developing heart disease later in life.