You know the feeling. When you first see your crush and your head starts spinning, your palms get sweaty, and your heart begins beating a mile a minute. Is this love? Or is it … an arrhythmia? The ...

The heart beats around 100,000 times a day, yet most people rarely think about how fast, or how efficiently it’s working, ...

When recording your heartbeat, look out for skipped beats, extra beats, or long pauses between beats, that can feel like ...

Thump, thump. The pounding rhythm is synonymous with the beat of life itself - the sound of a person's heartbeat. This ...

WARMINSTER, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- You've probably never heard of PVCs, but chances are you've had them if you felt your heart skip a beat. Cardiac PVCs might be benign, but can sometimes pose a ...

To live is to have a heartbeat, which is why it makes sense for us living things to have a good understanding of our ticker. It’s well-known science that our hearts beat faster when we exercise and ...

I receive a lot of emails from readers, which are wide-ranging in topic. Sometimes they're from readers who agree with me while others take issue with what I’ve written. Some ask provocative questions ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

A junctional escape rhythm is when the heartbeat starts in a different part of the heart than it should. This type of arrhythmia may not need treatment, but a doctor does need to investigate the ...

Beats are also faster in moments of stress or excitement, after we’ve consumed caffeine and when we exercise. Some speculate that overdoing it at the gym or performing other intense physical ...

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