Patients who were counseled on heart medications and lifestyle modifications by specially trained nurses were 30% less likely ...

Jessica Eastes was a cardiac nurse when she learned she was in heart failure and would need a transplant to survive.

The rate of cardiovascular death, nonfatal heart attack, or nonfatal stroke was 30% lower among patients receiving nurse-led ...

While the typical image of someone suffering a heart attack might be a man clutching his chest, heart disease is a major ...

“I spent my childhood in hospitals around cardiac nurses," says Eastes, 43, of Junction City, Kansas. "My first friend was a nurse." Her many surgeries were a success, and 30 years later she was ...

This week’s Healthcare Hero is Shileen Murray, a Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention Nurse specialist, hailing from ...

A new scientific statement details the most reported symptoms of cardiovascular disease—the leading cause of death in the U.S.—and how factors such as sex, cognitive function, and depression can ...

The rates in which nursing home staff perform CPR or use an automated external defibrillator on out-of-hospital cardiac ...

Amanda Strojinc and Kyle Preissner performed bystander CPR while a man was in cardiac arrest at Menards Jan. 24.