Microplastics are no longer just an environmental issue. Emerging data suggest they could also play a role in cardiovascular ...

Australian researchers have uncovered a crucial new mechanism that helps explain how the heart's major blood vessels form ...

This unexpected ability opens the door for scientists to stimulate cellular mitosis and improve heart function after an ...

Type 2 diabetes doesn’t just raise the risk of heart disease—it physically reshapes the heart itself. Researchers studying donated human hearts found that diabetes disrupts how heart cells produce ...

Human heart development is largely influenced by neural crest cells, which carefully regulate a key growth signal.

A research team at the University of California San Diego has discovered a novel and promising method of treating arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM), a rare inherited heart disease that can strike ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast heartbeat, it's been at least 30 years since any new treatments have been ...

Catherine O'Hara's heart and organs were a mirror image of most people's. Though that is rare, congenital heart defects are fairly common.

Heart-healthy proteins are typically low in saturated fat and high in other beneficial nutrients. Learn which eight proteins ...