A HEAL-CHF trial found 90% of heart failure patients showed improved cardiac function after receiving lab-grown heart muscle cell injections.

Vitamin D3 is more effective than vitamin D2 in maintaining and restoring skeletal muscle and heart function, according to a ...

In the late 1960s, three Weizmann Institute of Science researchers developed several protein-like molecules, called copolymers, that they believed would produce a disease similar to multiple sclerosis ...

Chinese stem cell therapy reverses heart failure in 90% of patients, landmark trial finds - Patients who received treatment ...

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 ...

Regenerative heart therapies involve transplanting cardiac muscle cells into damaged areas of the heart to recover lost function. However, the risk of arrhythmias following this procedure is ...

Working with heart muscle cells from diabetic rats, scientists at Johns Hopkins have located what they say is the epicenter of mischief wreaked by too much blood sugar and used a sugar-gobbling enzyme ...

Researchers at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, and the University of Utah School of Medicine, have demonstrated that a gene therapy can ...

Among older patients with HF, respiratory muscle strength was linked with exercise tolerance, regardless of lower-extremity function decline.

A ‘second heart’ is located below your knees, and you need to get it pumping ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have discovered that a ...