MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. – Distance can be deadly. Located in the Ozarks in Missouri, Fort Leonard Wood is well known for being a remote post. When a baby was born ...

Sometimes, a murmur sounds like a humming sound, which can be faint or loud. It might be temporary or persistent. Heart murmurs may be present at birth or develop later in life during pregnancy, ...

Lubb-dupp. Lubb-dupp. Those are the words that health care professionals often use to mimic the sound of your heartbeat. That steady, regular sound is made by your heart valves opening and closing as ...

The word murmur is used to describe the noise made by the blood as it flows through the hearts and big vessels leading in and out of the heart. Doctors often hear murmurs when they listen to a child's ...

Although heart murmur in children is usually harmless (referred to as innocent murmur), in a small number of cases it is symptomatic of cardiac disease (referred to as pathologic murmur). A new study ...

Does having a heart murmur mean you have a heart problem and need heart surgery? That’s not always necessarily true. But picking up a murmur on physical exam can, in certain circumstances, literally ...

Feb. 23—Detecting a heart murmur on your own can be tricky. A murmur is an extra heart sound that can be heard by a stethoscope. Sometimes, a murmur sounds like a humming sound, which can be faint or ...