In mice, blocking heart-to-brain signals improved healing after a heart attack, hinting at new targets for cardiac therapy.

The brain and vagus nerve play a key role in exacerbating tissue damage after a heart attack, but there are ways to block it.

When the heart's muscle is weakened or injured due to a heart attack, it can make it hard for the heart to pump enough blood ...

When the heart's muscle is weakened or injured due to a heart attack, it can make it hard for the heart to pump enough blood ...

University of California San Diego-led team has discovered that restoring a key cardiac protein called connexin‑43 in a mouse ...

A Tokyo-based startup said transplants of cardiac muscle cells that it engineered from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells ...

Heart failure has historically been irreversible, but the outcome of a new study suggests that could someday change. At the University of Utah, scientists used a new gene therapy that was shown to ...

John Barrass, 78, is successfully treated at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital.

Acute inflammation is a physiological and host defense response to cardiac injury after suffering myocardial infarction (MI), which programmes cardiac repair and wound healing. Leukocyte-mediated ...

Not all proteins function the same way in the body, especially when it comes to heart health. In a review of controlled ...

Black garlic and white garlic are both great for heart function. Here is how they differ and which one you should consume.

Your feet might be telling you more about your heart than you realize. While seemingly unrelated, mounting evidence suggests that foot discomfort may serve as an early warning system for ...