MANHASSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Patients who undergo cardiac surgery are at higher risk for developing postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) and current POAF drug therapies used to prevent it are ...

I can feel my heart beating quickly when I’m feeling anxious or stressed. What can I do about it? Is this normal? You can slow a rapid heart rate, caused by anxiety and even cardiac arrhythmias, using ...

Sign up for CNN’s Stress, But Less newsletter. Our six-part mindfulness guide will inform and inspire you to reduce stress while learning how to harness it. Fournie ...

$2.7 million grant is funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute East Tennessee State University’s Dr. Eric Beaumont, a professor in the Quillen College of ...

A new study has found that during exercise, the vagus nerve, essential to the body’s ‘rest and digest’ response, has a more important role in heart function than we thought. The findings could be ...

The vagus nerve is getting a lot of attention online these days. As just one of 12 paired cranial nerves, you may wonder what’s so special about it. But if you’ve seen people on social media sharing ...

The vagus nerve “has over 100,000 individual nerves in a bundle,” said neuroscientist Dr. Bashar Badran, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Neuro-X Lab at the Medical University of ...

(CNN) — Nick Fournie was 24 years old when severe depression upended his life. Fournie had been married to his longtime sweetheart for two years, and had no reason to suspect he had any mental health ...