When doctors discover that one of the heart’s major arteries is completely blocked, it often sounds like very bad news.

Pioneering research by experts at the University of Sydney, the Baird Institute and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney has shown that heart muscle cells regrow after a heart attack, opening up ...

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 ...

The heart is a muscular pump that needs its own steady supply of oxygen-rich blood to work properly. So, if the coronary arteries, the tubes that carry blood to the heart muscle, become clogged with ...

Scientists have found that the human heart can regenerate muscle cells after a heart attack, a process previously confirmed only in mice. The finding challenges long-held assumptions that heart damage ...

Affecting 1 in 500 people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, become abnormally thick. "HCM is one of the primary ...

Liz covers cardiovascular and metabolic disease, asking why we’re not doing better or even losing ground against the world’s leading killer. Send tips on Signal at LizC.22. By its name and nature, ...

Transmyocardial revascularization is a procedure that uses lasers to improve blood flow in the arteries that feed the heart. It may help people who have severe forms of coronary artery disease.

A single shot of self-amplifying RNA can repair tissue damage from a heart attack, new research in pigs and mice shows. It can take weeks or months to recover from a heart attack, but the new study ...

Pioneering research by experts at the University of Sydney, the Baird Institute and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney has shown that heart muscle cells regrow after a heart attack, opening up ...