Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the United States, and to raise awareness, the National ...

Heart function requires greater effort from the left ventricle which leads to ventricular thickening. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) develops after an initial adaptive ...

and changes in heart structure and function. During the past 30 years, childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents. The prevalence of obesity among U.S. children ...

Developed by Northwestern Engineering’s Igor Efimov and George Washington University’s Luyao Lu, the implantable device uses ...