Heart attack damages the muscles, which requires bypass surgery. But now researchers have discovered a new way to treat it.

Those with higher amounts of fat stored in their muscles were more likely to have coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD), a condition that affects the small blood vessels in the heart. They were ...

People who regularly engage in significant amounts of exercise, as endurance athletes do, may develop enlarged hearts. While ...

Aheart attack occurs when blood supply to the heart muscle is totally lost due to complete blockage of the coronary artery, ...

It's an ability and skill often taken for granted. It affects quality of life and has been linked to heart disease and stroke ...

Affecting 1 in 500 people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, become abnormally thick. "HCM is one of the ...

The microscopy image of the printed muscle fiber shows its structure. (Image: Empa) From a VR glove to a beating heart In collaboration with researchers from ETH Zurich, Danner and Dorina Opris, who ...

we can get pretty close to how real muscle fibers work," says Opris. The researcher believes that in future it may be possible to print an entire heart from these fibers. However, there is still a ...

It's an ability and skill often taken for granted. It affects quality of life and has been linked to heart disease and stroke ...