Heart failure that ultimately results from disease factors like high blood pressure can be predicted and potentially prevented. In a new University of Alabama at Birmingham study, scientists show how ...

A phenomenon known as "overload failure" may have contributed to a single-engine plane crash June 30 in Delaware County that killed all five people aboard, according to a preliminary report released ...

New research indicates that sustained fluid overload - when there is too much fluid in the blood - may increase the risk of early death in kidney failure patients on hemodialysis. The findings, which ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sorbent Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for cardiovascular and renal diseases, today announced that patient ...

Higher doses of spironolactone, a diuretic (water pill), can prevent the need for dialysis in selected heart failure patients, a UT Health San Antonio study found. The aggressive approach relieved ...

A new study published in CJASN found substantial volume overload, or too much fluid in the body, in patients with kidney failure who initiated peritoneal dialysis. Volume overload tended to improve ...

Riders said the escalator felt like it was in free fall. It careened forward quickly, “four, five, six times the normal speed,” one man estimated after the New Year’s Eve crash in 2007. Revelers on ...

Clinical researchers found that giving higher doses of the diuretic spironolactone could safely and effectively treat fluid excess in heart failure patients who did not respond to other diuretics.