Scientists have found a novel way that includes a new lab-grown material that could help slow and even reverse some of the ...

Heart muscles or cardiomyocytes replicate at a slow rate of 0.5 per cent a year, falling way short of repairing the damage caused by any cardiac event. In place of working tissue, thick, tough and ...

The idea that blood is the basic stuff of life dates back to well before the scientific method. Yet, in a pair of new studies, researchers have found that blood — and specifically a growth factor in ...

May 31 -- FRIDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) -- Tests on mice suggest that the drug BH4 may hold promise as a treatment for people with enlarged hearts, says a Johns Hopkins University study ...

Hesham Sadek further added that this was the very first study to offer direct evidence of human cardiac muscle regeneration.

Moderate exercise can reverse and restore a stiffening heart muscle. A new study finds that if you begin an exercise regimen before you turn 65, you can drastically make your heart act younger.

Dietary supplement can reverse the signs of heart disease in a subset of patients. ... Tricaprin is a commercially available food supplement that promotes lipid breakdown by heart muscle cells.

We have nothing to reverse heart muscle loss.” Researchers found that patients with artificial hearts regenerated muscle cells at more than six times the rate of healthy hearts.

Heart failure has historically been irreversible, but a new study suggests that could change. At the University of Utah, scientists used a new gene therapy that reversed heart failure in animals.