Researchers from Hannover Medical School (MHH) have placed living human heart tissue in a nutrient solution and used it to test new drugs and innovative approaches to combat heart failure. Professor ...

While mostly dispensable to daily life, this process is crucial to preventing heart failure when the heart is stressed. “This appears to be a critical backup system for heart function,” says Gregory ...

Adult heart muscle has long been treated as tissue with very little capacity to replace cells lost during a heart attack. A new observation in living human samples complicates that picture: heart ...

An important aspect of these assessments has been the use of cardiac ultrasound through which we can assess the structure and function of the heart, how large it is and how the muscle contracts, ...

People exposed to more light at night showed differences in the structure and function of their hearts in a large ...

Trendy weight-loss drugs making headlines for shrinking waistlines may also be shrinking the human heart and other muscles, according to a new University of Alberta study in JACC: Basic to ...

Amsterdam, NL, February, 26. 2015 - The muscular dystrophies are known to target various muscle groups differentially. In addition to making limb muscles weak, muscular dystrophy (MD) can also lead to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pulled Muscle or Heart Attack? How to Tell the Difference in Chest Pain Chest pain can be disconcerting, but it's important to ...

Mammals, from the mighty blue whale to the tiny shrew, inhabit nearly every corner of our planet. Their remarkable adaptability to different environments has long fascinated scientists, with each ...