The heart is a hollow, muscular organ about the size of a closed fist. Located between the lungs in the mediastinum, it’s about 12.5 cm (5”) long and 9 cm (3½”) in diameter at its widest point. It ...

The rates in which nursing home staff perform CPR or use an automated external defibrillator on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest residents “were not ideal,” according to a new study. Researchers say ...

The expression ‘follow your heart’ is overused and I feel it needs examining a little to emphasise it is not always a simple thing to do. Subscribe today to access over 6,000 peer-reviewed clinical ...

Making doctors opt out from prescribing cardiac rehabilitation instead of opting in increased referrals by roughly 70 percent Cardiac rehabilitation is a therapy that combines guided exercise along ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Known across the country as a nursing theorist, philosopher and scholar, Doctor Jean Watson visited the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center on Friday. She shared her ...