NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — In Friday’s Health headlines, February is heart month, and we’re talking about AFib, portable EKG devices, and how stress this season can be hard on the heart. Yale Medicine ...

Asymptomatic AFib is a silent condition, so it often goes undetected until a routine physical, smart technology alert, or a ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model designed by Scripps Research scientists could help clinicians better screen patients for atrial fibrillation (or AFib) - an irregular, fast heartbeat that is ...

Atrial fibrillation (Afib) is a type of cardiac arrhythmia, or abnormal heart rhythm, that is very common — and more prevalent than previously thought. A large study published in October 2024 in a ...

Using the ECG on Apple Watch Series 4 is dead easy. Photo: Lewis Wallace/Cult of Mac Ed Dentel has become the poster child for the new ECG function of the Apple Watch. He installed the recent update ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a generally healthy 60-year-old man. Last week, I had some abdominal cramping, and while I was on the toilet, I noted the abrupt onset of a strange feeling in my chest as well as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While many people do feel symptoms—a rapid heartbeat, skipping a beat, dizziness, extreme shortness of breath—up to a third of ...

Emergency ECG screening helps detect silent Atrial Fibrillation early, reducing stroke risk and improving outcomes in high-risk patients.

YOUR WRIST. >> IT PICKS UP A REGULAR HEARTBEAT. MINDY: THIS WATCH DOES MORE THAN TELL TIME. IT MONITORS HIS HEART. HE HAS HAD TROUBLE WITH HIS HEART FOR YEARS. >> SHE BUYS ME THE WATCH. I PUT IT ON, ...

The electrocardiogram built into recent Apple Watch models isn’t likely to give wearers false notifications that they have atrial fibrillation, a potentially dangerous heart condition. A clean bill of ...

AliveCor, makers of the Kardia Mobile smartphone-connected ECG, announced the results of several major studies of the technology, including one that was published online today in Circulation, the ...

In A Nutshell Men in their 50s who slept less were significantly more likely to have atrial fibrillation (AFib), a common and ...