Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body. When blood returns to the heart, it follows a complicated pathway. If you were in the bloodstream ...

Imagine you could grow a new limb or a new organ. We would be able to live forever if that were the case. However, while we cannot grow new limbs, our bodies still react in pretty miraculous ways when ...

The VAD pump has a unique design, Daneshmand said, that mimics the natural rhythm of a human pulse while also being more gentle on the heart. The wearable components are designed for patient ...

Source: National Museum of American History, CC0 1.0 Once doctors were free to explore the human heart, its structure and function became clear. The heart is a four-chambered pump made from ...

Edwards saw the human heart as a pump, too, and approached Starr in 1958 with an idea to produce an artificial heart. “Dr. Starr could have thought this guy is crazy, but he didn’t,” said ...

STEM cell patches can fix heart failure by regenerating the muscle, tests show. The treatment was found to increase the ...

A Pittsboro woman is living life to the fullest despite a heart condition that’s impacted a number of people in her family.  ...

There are notable differences between men and women in their susceptibility to many human diseases, including cardiovascular ...

Your heart is an exquisitely engineered pump made almost entirely of muscle ... This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the topic to life and would ...

After a heart attack, the human heart loses millions of muscle cells that cannot regrow. This often leads to heart failure, where the heart struggles to pump blood effectively. Unlike humans ...

Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body. When blood returns to the heart, it follows a complicated pathway. If you were in the bloodstream ...