Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when you’re relaxing, and sometimes it’s faster when you’re exercising or stressed ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The heart is an incredible machine, pumping blood to fuel ...

Some environmental phenols are known to have cardiac toxicities. Now, a new study is revealing their adverse impact on the heart's electrical properties. Environmental phenols are found in a wide ...

New research from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute will allow families around the world to discover if they are carrying genetic mutations that cause sudden cardiac arrest – a condition ...

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is a kind of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia. A problem with the electrical signals that control your heart’s pumping action causes it to beat too fast in a pattern that ...

Like much of healthcare, the roots of modern cardiology may be traced back to Hippocrates. Considered the father of medicine, Hippocrates was the first to describe the sudden death of people who ...