When heart muscle gets damaged, the result is often permanent. Unlike other muscles in the body, the heart has long been believed to lack the ability to heal itself. But recent research suggests that ...

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 Johns Hopkins-led study reports that severe obesity in people with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is linked to weakened contraction of heart muscle cells, but this defect may ...

In a new research report, a team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins Medicine say people with severe obesity and a common type ...

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 ...

In a new research report, a team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins Medicine say people with severe obesity and a common type ...

By studying and engineering heart tissue in the unique low-gravity environment of space, the laboratory of Arun Sharma, Ph.D.

A research team co-led by a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson's Sarver Heart Center found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart ...

Study shows greater muscle area in men leads increased risk of heart disease; it's different for muscle density. Body composition -- often expressed as the amount of fat in relation to muscle -- is ...

Kumamoto University researchers discover that combining two advanced heart imaging techniques can predict life-threatening ...

Cardiac complications in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are the result of cardiac muscle involvement that accompanies the deterioration of skeletal muscle in the disease. The use of ...