Apple has launched a new app today that will allow the company to gather irregular heart rhythm data from the Apple Watch’s heart rate sensor. Called the Apple Heart Study app, it will detect ...

Smartwatches and wearable heart monitors can help detect issues such as irregular heart rhythms. But they also have limits ...

BNP may help doctors identify HCM patients at highest risk of serious heart complications, improving monitoring and treatment ...

A new paper published by Stanford University researchers in the nature Journal confirms the utility of smart watches for identifying arrhythmias in children. Arrhythmia symptoms are frequent ...

Steven Poelzing (left) and Gregory Hoeker, researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, collaborated on a new study published in the journal Heart Rhythm revealing why low blood ...

Less than 1 percent of the population has been diagnosed with Long QT syndrome – a rare heart condition that can cause chaotic, sometimes fatal, heart rhythms. Now, Virginia Tech researchers at the ...

Some of the medications being used to treat COVID-19 are known to cause drug-induced prolongation of the QTc of some people. Patients with a dangerously prolonged QTc are at increased risk for ...

In cardiac arrest, the speed and type of treatment can literally mean life or death in the immediate term, but can also affect health outcomes after successful resuscitation. During out-of-hospital ...

Correspondence to Dr Jonathan A Drezner, Department of Family Medicine, Sports Medicine Section, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-0005, USA; jdrezner{at}uw.edu Objectives We assessed ...

The FINANCIAL — Apple on November 30 launched the Apple Heart Study app, a first-of-its-kind research study using Apple Watch’s heart rate sensor to collect data on irregular heart rhythms and notify ...