Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan State University scientists have built tiny beating heart organoids that can be driven into atrial fibrillation with ...

HOUSTON — In a groundbreaking move, the FDA has approved the second phase of clinical trials for the BiVACOR mechanical heart, a device that could potentially make human heart transplants a thing of ...

The human heart has the ability to repair itself, scientists have found, in a breakthrough that could provide a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of patients. When someone has a heart attack or heart ...

How do they do it? This question often comes to mind when I look at parents raising a child in today’s world. What an awesome responsibility they face every day, as parents entrusted with the ...

Physician-scientists found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure. A research team ...

The tides of war often turn on the unexpected, such as attacking the enemy on an unanticipated front. General George Washington attempted to do just that when he assailed Philadelphia by way of ...

New research in Sweden has produced a "blueprint" revealing how the human heart is built during prenatal development. It offers insights that could lead to improved prenatal care and new treatments ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping street on the outskirts of St. Andrews, Scotland, perched inside a ...