The balloon pump can help improve the heart’s ability to pump blood as it needs to. Through a surgical procedure, the device is inserted through your leg into the heart. This is a short-term solution ...

Despite making up half of the 64 million people living with heart failure, patients with this common form have no access to heart pump treatments and are left with only medication or palliative care.

When the heart can no longer pump blood efficiently throughout the body, kidney function issues are among the first complications to develop. Congestive heart failure (CHF), a condition that reflects ...

New drugs and a growing awareness of the common condition offer hope for patients. By Nina Agrawal Ann Ramirez first noticed something was wrong when, at age 48, she started waking up in the middle of ...