Get to know the functions of your heart, blood vessels, and blood itself and how they work together to maintain your health.

Reports on stem cell therapies for post-heart attack tissue repair have described at best modest success. Most clinical trials have used bone marrow-derived cells, which are thought to promote the ...

AMES, Iowa - Researchers may have discovered a way to turn back the clock on aging heart muscles in fruit flies, a development that could lead to new therapies for older humans with heart disease. Hua ...

Cardiologists and radiation oncologists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis pioneered the use of radiation therapy - a strategy typically used against cancer - to treat patients ...

Heart failure sounds alarming—and rightfully so. Yet approximately 6.5 million Americans currently live with this condition, many with the specific variant called systolic heart failure, and a ...