A woman is giving her neighbors in Boston a chance to connect with others through a "not mail" box outside of her home.

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is ...

Heart failure is a serious issue in the United States. In fact, it affects around 7 million American adults and is ...

Dec. 2, 2021 — Human heart muscle cells cease to multiply after birth, making any heart injury later in life a permanent one, reducing function and leading to heart failure.

Researchers grew a piece of a human heart in a lab. The new model isn’t an entire heart. Instead, it’s a model of the ventricle, one of the heart’s major parts.

Suffice it to say, the human heart is a precious but ever so fragile part of our being, one that can engender feelings good and bad. When these bad feelings (or, worse yet, ...

The Human Heart: A Perfect Spiral Mystery. At the center of this dizzying array lay the sacred secret that had so profoundly occupied Aristotle and Aquinas, Leonardo and Vesalius—the human heart.

The story of the giraffe, its neck, and a possible treatment for human heart disease. Q&A with Barbara Natterson-Horowitz: Answers for vexing human illnesses can be found in animals.

So, let’s talk about the condition of the human heart these days in which we live. Just as in Jesus’ time, the human heart can easily be corrupted by what it experiences.

The ability of the human heart to renew itself by regenerating its muscle cells, myocytes, is very limited. But what happens to this capability when the heart is damaged by severe heart failure ...