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Learn how collaboration, innovation and compassion have helped Tufts Medical Center build one of the nation’s top heart transplant programs.

Cardiogenic shock is serious and often sudden. Tufts Medical Center’s Navin Kapur, MD, interventional cardiologist and leading expert in cardiogenic shock, shares what you need to know about this life-threatening condition.

How Tufts Medicine Care at Home is empowering heart patients to take charge of their health and treatment.

Learn when heart palpitations might be a cause for concern. Tufts Medical Center cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, Margaret Infeld, MS, MD, shares what to look for and when to seek professional help for your heart health.

Tufts Medicine experts share the health and wellness resolutions you should make to live your healthiest year yet.

Tufts Medical Center’s Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant team has reached an exciting milestone, performing the hospital’s 800th heart transplant procedure in October 2024. “We’re proud to celebrate this milestone and every successful transplantation we have the privilege to perform, said Gregory Couper, MD, Surgical Director of the Advanced Heart Failure Program. “Each heart transplant is an opportunity for a person to live a longer and more fulfilling life, and it means countless more families and friends who get time with the people they love.”

Congestive Heart Failure affects more than 6 million Americans and is the leading cause of hospital stays in adults aged 65 and older. Identifying CHF in the early stages can prolong your life. Tufts Medical Center’s Medical Director, Cardiac Transplantation, Indranee N. Rajapreyar, MD walks you through the symptoms of the 4 stages of CHF, as well as treatments and prevention.

Understand heart attack signs, symptoms, and prevention. Discover risk factors and learn what to do during a heart attack from the team at Tufts Medicine.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, but you can reduce your risk.

There are hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. on organ transplant wait lists. Read Tufts Medical Center's perspective on what you can do to help.

To save individuals suffering from a completely blocked heart artery, called a STEMI (ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction) in the medical world, every minute matters.

It's never too late for an expectant mom to adopt healthy habits for her baby and herself.

If you’re at risk for heart disease, there's good news.

Surveys show that few women think heart disease is their greatest health threat.

The vascular system, also known as the circulatory system, is comprised of arteries, veins and vessels that carry blood throughout the body.

What is heart failure and what causes it?

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A physician with a special name shares her family history and her passion for medicine.

Lowell General Hospital has received the 2021 American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline^® EMS Gold Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures to treat patients who suffer severe heart attacks.

Lowell General Hospital has received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline^® EMS Gold Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures to treat patients who suffer severe heart attacks.