The human heart can lose up to one-third of its cardiomyocyte (heart muscle cells) following a severe heart attack, but a new study found that the heart can regrow these cells following ischemia.

Heart attacks can occur in healthy adults.

Arteries become clogged. Blood flow is restricted and oxygen is cut off. The result is a heart attack, the world’s leading cause of death. The conventional approach to studying and treating these ...

He emphasizes that it’s important to know what the symptoms of having a heart attack look like because heart attacks require immediate medical help. Another difference between how heart attacks are ...

A clinical trial of more than 3,600 patients evaluated for chest pain showed that fatty liver disease was linked to nearly ...

As a hospital patient transporter, Tommy Bell was used to helping people get to and from procedures at the Florida facility he worked at − but he never expected to become a patient there himself.

Heart attacks are scary, and they happen way too often—the CDC estimates that someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds in the U.S. While common sense says the best thing to do when you’re having a ...

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 ...