A hospital in Japan has carried out the world's first surgery using sheets of commercially available heart muscle stem cells ...

When you hear the term "regenerative medicine," what kind of image comes to mind?Regenerative medicine, which has long been ...

The adult heart may be trying to repair itself after a heart attack—it just struggles to finish the job. For decades, the adult heart was treated as an organ with almost no ability to replace the ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

Researchers led by Assistant Professor Lynn Yap of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have uncovered new insights into how unspecialized cells, also ...

A septal myectomy is an open-heart operation that removes the portion of thickened heart muscle blocking blood flow. During ...

New guidance for diagnosing heart attacks tells doctors to account for a key difference between women and men — levels of a ...

A new Yale-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform can detect individuals at risk for amyloid cardiomyopathy, an ...

Myocardial fibrosis—scarred heart muscle—was linked with increased risk of irregular heart rhythms among male endurance athletes, according to a new study published in the Circulation: Cardiovascular ...

Transferring mitochondria from a patient's healthy skeletal muscle to damaged, ischemic heart tissue has been shown to restore heart muscle, increase energy production, and improve ventricular ...

When you read about people dying of “natural causes,” it usually means that they died of heart failure because they spent too much time lying in bed. When you become inactive, you lose your skeletal ...