When heart muscle gets damaged, the result is often permanent. Unlike other muscles in the body, the heart has long been ...

Originally appeared on the NOVA Web site Cut to the Heart. Let's get straight to the heart of the matter—the heart's job is to move blood. Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and ...

Now that scientists know the aorta helps the heart pump blood, they can start working on ... Researchers then crafted an artificial aorta model made of flexible latex to match the actual aorta ...

The right-hand side of the heart is responsible for pumping deoxygenated blood to the lungs. The left-hand side pumps oxygenated blood around the body. Each side of the heart consists of an atrium ...

The 34-year-old model died April 20 after suffering ... This disrupts the heart's pumping action and stops blood flow through the body. It is often fatal if proper steps aren't taken immediately.

The treated hearts' efficiency at pumping blood, which is the main measure of the severity of heart failure, increased over time—not to fully healthy levels, but close to that of healthy hearts.

After earning a dual MD–PhD from the University of Maryland, Porter used his background in muscle cell biology to investigate heart development at Yale. It wasn’t until his move to Rochester, however, ...

(NEXSTAR) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Monday that two heart pump products are ... the device and keep it from properly pumping blood. The accumulation usually happens ...

The right-hand side of the heart is responsible for pumping deoxygenated blood to the lungs. The left-hand side pumps oxygenated blood around the body. Each side of the heart consists of an atrium ...