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During an average lifetime, the heart beats more than 2 billion times. To you, it might just be a steady "lub-dub" that speeds up under pressure and slows as you drift to sleep. But behind that ...

Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these ...

Atrial fibrillation (Afib) is one of the most common heart rhythm disorders, affecting millions worldwide. It occurs when the ...

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Just a dozen patients have undergone the new treatment that uses electrical pulses to target problem areas inside the heart.

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Light exposure at night may disrupt our body's internal clocks, or circadian rhythms, that keep physiological processes ...

Deaths related to atrial fibrillation appear to be on the rise, especially among younger adults, a new study suggests. Atrial fibrillation – often called AFib – is an irregular heartbeat that ...

Heart attacks are no longer the leading cause of heart disease-related death, but deaths from heart disease have still been ...

At a local emergency room, Tennis was discovered to have heart rhythm irregularities and an abnormal electrocardiogram. Two months, several ER visits, many fainting spells and medical tests later, ...