The Latest Breaking News from Cardiomyopathy

Chocolate Chips Hiding Pills at a Rave Left a 19-Year-Old With an Upside-Down Broken Heart and Artery Clots

A teen ate chocolate chips containing unidentified pills at a rave, then developed reverse Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and dangerous artery clots.

Medical Daily · Oct 2

Why Cats Cannot Survive on a Vegetarian Diet: The Taurine Deficiency Every Pet Owner Must Know

What Obligate Carnivore Actually MeansThe word obligate is doing serious work in that phrase. An obligate carnivore is not an animal that prefers meat the way a dog might prefer it over vegetables. It is an animal whose metabolic machinery has, over millions of years of evolution, outsourced certain critical…

Times Life · Sep 7

Your Pet Is Probably Overweight: How Body Condition Scoring and the Rib Check Work

The Number on the Scale LiesA Labrador Retriever should weigh between 25 and 36 kilograms depending on frame size and sex. That range is wide enough to hide three or four kilograms of pure fat. The scale tells you mass. It tells you nothing about how that mass is distributed,…

Times Life · Sep 7

Heart disease injection edges industry closer to cure

Australian researchers believe they are on the cusp on a world-leading breakthrough that could reverse genetic heart disease.

AAP · Aug 19

Her Emergency Cesarean Went Smoothly Until the Breathing Tube Came Out

A 41-year-old's cesarean was uneventful. Minutes after extubation, she was in respiratory distress and back on a ventilator in intensive care.

Medical Daily · Aug 14

Duchenne Families Face a Three-Week Wait After FDA Advisers Rejected the Heart Therapy Evidence

FDA advisers voted 9-3 that evidence for dermaicell falls short for Duchenne cardiomyopathy. The FDA decides by August 22. What families should know.

Medical Daily · Jul 30

FDA Advisers Meet Today on a Cell Therapy for the Heart Disease That Now Kills Most Duchenne Patients

FDA advisers vote today on deramiocel for Duchenne cardiomyopathy. Agency reviewers say the trial missed its endpoints. The company disagrees.

Medical Daily · Jul 29

Ten Years of Veterinary Science Discoveries Changing How We Care for Dogs and Cats

Animals Hide Pain Better Than We Thought, And We Now Know How to Find ItFor decades, the standard assumption was that a quiet pet was a comfortable pet. A 2016 study published in PLOS ONE, and subsequent research from the University of Lincoln, changed that. Cats in particular suppress pain…

Times Life · Jul 27

FDA-Cleared AI Reads Your Routine ECG and Flags Hidden Heart Failure Before You Have Any Symptoms

EchoNext received FDA clearance June 23, 2026, as the first AI to detect six types of hidden heart disease from a routine ECG. Here is what patients and doctors need to know.

Medical Daily · Jul 24

Cytokinetics Says MYKORZO Launch Tops Expectations as HCM Data Draws Praise

Cytokinetics (NASDAQ:CYTK) executives said the commercial launch of MYKORZO is tracking ahead of internal expectations, while also highlighting positive physician feedback on the drug’s label, REMS program and recent clinical data in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy during a discussion hosted by RBC Capi

MarketBeat · May 22