Dr. Omar Al-Heeti is an assistant professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University and practices internal medicine with a specialty in infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from the ...

Accurately measuring electrical signals and calcium levels in the heart can lead to earlier treatment of potentially fatal conditions, such as heart attack or congestive heart failure. Calcium plays ...

Persistently high blood sugar and insulin resistance significantly increased the risk of worsening functional and structural heart damage during growth from adolescence to young adulthood, a new study ...

The Jones criteria is a diagnostic tool for diagnosing acute rheumatic fever (ARF). It involves testing heart function using echocardiograms, X-rays, blood tests, and other screenings. Rheumatic heart ...

Modern breast cancer screening and treatment have transformed survival. Many women now live long and healthy lives after diagnosis, thanks to increasingly effective chemotherapy and targeted therapies ...

Heart failure is a decline in cardiac function caused by a variety of conditions that reduce myocardial contractility and can lead to cardiovascular events with poor prognosis. 1 With the development ...