DEAR DR. ROACH: I see screening tests advertised often. For $160 I can get screened for conditions that might cause stroke, ...

A heart murmur is a sound often characterized as a "whooshing" or rushing of fluid that can be heard between heartbeats. As ...

Gregg Jumper is used to pressure: from the weight of a loaded bar to the weight of relief as he breaks yet another national record – his own.

Cardiac Dimensions, a Kirkland, Wash., company with a technology to treat heart valve malfunction, has raised $53 million from investors. Its total funding is more than $200 million. Cardiac ...

For conditions such as truncus arteriosus and severe aortic stenosis without good function, infants not only need new heart valves and arteries to survive, but the new tissue also needs to grow ...

where he is leading attempts to develop a revolutionary new heart valve and improve the lives of children with rheumatic heart disease.