A heart murmur is, as the name suggests, a sound that occurs during a heartbeat, caused by rapid, turbulent blood flow through the heart. Characterised as a whooshing or swishing sound, these heart ...

Adults with congenital heart defects were more likely to experience an abnormal, irregular heartbeat, finds a study from Israel, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association The study of ...

Your heart shows its workings in two ways: electricity and movement. An ECG listens to the first, tracking the electrical signals that trigger each heartbeat, while an echocardiogram watches the ...