Every year, more than 200,000 people in Germany suffer a heart attack. This is caused by blocked coronary arteries. As a ...

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 ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers are collaborating with NASA to send human heart "tissue-on-a-chip" specimens into space. The project is designed to monitor the tissue for changes in heart muscle ...

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 ...

A team of scientists from Harvard Medical School and Duke University has created a new kind of tissue that can change heart activity using only light—no wires, no surgery, no harm. This groundbreaking ...