Heart Failure

Older people with heart failure may be able to continue drinking moderately without harming their health, a new study suggests. In fact, heart failure patients who consume up to seven drinks a week may actually live...

People with heart failure who get flu shots may be less likely to die prematurely than their counterparts who don’t get vaccinated, a Danish study suggests. Researchers followed more than 134,000 patients with heart failure between...

Older women who exercise may be less likely to develop heart failure, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers examined data on 137,303 postmenopausal women, ages 50 to 79 (average age, 63). More than one third had high...

Boys who become overweight during puberty are more likely to be diagnosed with heart failure when they grow up than their slimmer counterparts, according to new research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity...

Heart failure means the heart is less able to pump blood around the body. This occurs after the heart becomes damaged, typically as a result of a heart attack, high blood pressure or cardiomyopathy. Between 2002...

News Hour: Novartis announced results from the global Phase III RELAX-AHF-2 study investigating the efficacy, safety and tolerability of RLX030 (serelaxin) in patients with acute heart failure (AHF). RELAX-AHF-2 did not meet its primary endpoints of reduction...