Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body. When blood returns to the heart, it follows a complicated pathway. If you were in the bloodstream ...

Skeletal muscle has a profound ability to regenerate after injury. If you are playing soccer and you tear a muscle, you need ...

Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body. In the Step Thru below, see the complicated path the blood takes as it moves in and out of the heart.

Up to 300 people are currently on the UK's transplant list and many are fitted with mechanical pumps as a "bridge" to getting a new heart. Called left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), they help ...

A groundbreaking discovery has emerged from the University of Arizona College of Medicine, offering a new and unexpected ...

Your heart is an exquisitely engineered pump made almost entirely of muscle ... This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the topic to life and would ...

Physician-scientists found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure.

Physicians at Emory University Hospital performed the first-ever surgical implantation in the United States of a brand-new type of heart pump designed to help save patients with heart failure, using a ...

A "pumping" patch containing millions of living, beating stem cells could help repair the damage caused by a heart attack, according to researchers. Sewn on to the heart, the 3cm (1in) by 2cm ...

Some people with artificial hearts can regenerate heart muscle, according to a study, an advance that may open the door to ...

“This is the strongest evidence we have, so far, that human heart muscle ... from a soccer injury. “The pump pushes blood into the aorta, bypassing the heart,” he said.