Biomedical engineers at Duke University have created a fully functioning artificial human heart muscle large enough to patch over damage typically seen in patients who have suffered a heart attack. The advance takes a major ...
Nov 28, 2017
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Cardiac fibrosis involves an increase of connective tissue in the cardiac muscle, causing a loss of function. A team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now discovered that microRNA 29 (miR-29) ...
Nov 22, 2017
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Screening programs for cardiac conditions are not an effective way to prevent sudden cardiac arrest in competitive sport, and may prevent healthy athletes from participating, a new study suggests.
Nov 15, 2017
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An artificial heart would be an absolute lifesaver for people with cardiac failure. However, to recreate the complex organ in the laboratory, one would first need to work out how to grow multi-layered, living tissues. Researchers ...
Nov 7, 2017
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A potential treatment to prevent deadly muscle scarring that contributes to chronic heart failure has been uncovered by scientists.
Oct 24, 2017
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Rolling Stone magazine landed in a spot of bother on Monday after publicising news of rock star Tom Petty's death prematurely, while others said it was the result of a heart attack rather than a cardiac arrest. Petty unfortunately ...
Oct 6, 2017
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The human heart is particularly vulnerable to viruses. That's because cardiac myocytes, the heart muscle cells that give your heart its ability to "beat," have one major weakness – they don't reproduce themselves to repair ...
Sep 29, 2017
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Of the nearly one million people in the United States who are affected by sepsis each year, almost one-fifth die. Cardiovascular complications account for approximately 80 percent of those deaths. The heart muscle, weakened ...
Sep 7, 2017
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Some heart disease patients who are treated with cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) would live longer and have fewer hospital admissions if they also received a defibrillator, concludes a team of researchers led by Aston ...
Sep 4, 2017
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A study led by researchers at Uppsala University, which included more than 13,000 patients, has resulted in a new tool that will facilitate the treatment of patients with stable coronary artery disease.
Sep 1, 2017
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