We’re proud to celebrate the 2026/27 Heart & Stroke research award recipients and the important work they’re undertaking to advance heart and brain health in Canada. Through our research funding prog...

The 7th Edition of Cardiology World Conference (Cardio 2026) will take place October 8–10, 2026, in Tokyo, Japan, with hybrid participation available. The

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Every second of every day, your heart performs an extraordinary balancing act. Roughly the size of your fist, this remarkable organ contracts about 100,000 times each day, pumping thousands of litres of blood through an intricate network of vessels. It does so with astonishing reliability, rarely taking a break from the moment it first begins beating before birth until the end of life. Most of us think about the heart in simple terms. We measure its rate, check our blood pressure, or perhaps hear about blocked arteries and heart attacks. Doctors often assess how much blood the heart pumps with each beat or calculate the familiar "ejection fraction," which estimates how well the heart empties during contraction. These measurements are valuable, but they tell only part of the story.