Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of mans torso in glowy blue outlines with heart highlighted in red Despite its importance, the heart is one of 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 ...

Melbourne researchers have made a gene therapy breakthrough that could restore heart function in children with genetic heart ...

The heart powers a busy highway of arteries and vessels, providing a constant to-and-fro passage for blood. During a heart ...

Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and prevent heart failure. The therapy both prompts the immune system to ...

Newborns with heart complications can rely on their newly developed immune systems to regenerate cardiac tissues, but adults aren't so lucky. After a heart attack, most adults struggle to regenerate ...

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) have made a significant breakthrough in the treatment of severe heart failure: For ...

Research on cells from mice that had been on the International Space Station suggests that astronaut hearts can withstand ...

Urolithin A, the compound gut bacteria make from pomegranates, eased heart failure in mice by switching on one spot on one ...

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