The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

Diabetes has long been treated as a disease of blood sugar, but a growing body of research suggests it is also a disease of ...

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 ...

Scientists at Mount Sinai have made a groundbreaking discovery that could change the way we treat heart disease. They found ...

Senior Lecturer and Clinical Academic in Faculty of Medicine, Health & Life Sciences, Swansea University Mammals, from the mighty blue whale to the tiny shrew, inhabit nearly every corner of our ...

This study gives hope to millions of people living with heart failure. If gene therapy can boost the heart’s own healing ...

The simple, constant rhythm of a beating heart is a reassuring sign of life. With each lub-dub, blood brings life-sustaining oxygen throughout the body. But behind this steady beat is a busy ...

Credit: Getty Images A discussion of the history and future of artificial heart technology with Dr Francisco Arabia and Dr Jack Renfrew’s experience with an artificial heart transplant. In May 2025, ...

Nicholas St. Fleur covered the intersection of race, medicine, and the life sciences. He hosted STAT’s health equity podcast, Color Code. For much of Barbara Natterson-Horowitz’s career, her work has ...

Aitor Aguirre receives funding from the NIH, AHA, Corewell-MSU Alliance Foundation and HVI. Aleksandra Kostina and Brett Volmert do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...