A resting heart rate is the simplest way to gauge your overall health. Here’s what you should know about its normal range, ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Your heart beats around 100,000 times every day. Heart rate is a key marker of cardiovascular activity and an important vital sign. But your ...

The target heart rate is how fast the heart should beat during physical activity. Calculating the target heart rate and comparing it with the actual heart rate can help a person work out if their ...

(The Conversation) – Your heart beats around 100,000 times every day. Heart rate is a key marker of cardiovascular activity and an important vital sign. But your pulse is not as steady as a precision ...

Your heartbeat can provide valuable clues to help you stay well. Here’s what top cardiologists want you to know about it.

Your pulse and blood pressure work together as vital indicators of heart health, though they measure different things. While blood pressure shows how forcefully blood pushes against artery walls, your ...

In this era of fitness trackers, we have easy access to our heart rate at any given moment. Every so often, a number catches ...

Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Nayan Bhatia demonstrates Pulse-Fi, technology that uses WiFi signals to measure a person's heart rate. Heart rate is one of the most basic and important ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. As a cardiovascular physiologist, I measure ...