Heart failure is a condition in which the heart has lost ability to pump enough blood to the body's tissues. With too little blood, the organs and other tissues do not receive enough oxygen and nutrients to function properly. Heart failure happens when...

Merck & Co. will buy NovaCardia Inc., a tiny drug development company with a promising experimental heart drug in late-stage development, for $350 million, the companies said Wednesday.Shares of Merck jumped nearly 3 percent, possibly because the drugmaker said it will update its 2007 earnings...

Walter Bareiss, a businessman who was one of the first significant Western collectors of African art, died this week at age 87, his son said.Hugh Bareiss said his father died Monday at Stamford Hospital. He had pneumonia and congestive heart failure, according to The New...

Tom Moore, who in the 1960s helped the fledgling ABC Television Network become a competitive rival of CBS and NBC, has died. He was 88.Moore, who also won several Emmy awards as head of his own production company, died Saturday of congestive heart failure in...