Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating pig’s heart floating in clear liquid. Graduate and undergraduate students ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast heartbeat, it's been at least 30 years since any new treatments have been ...

MSU researchers have created the first human heart-like “organoids” that enable the study of atrial fibrillation, or A-fib. The models also enable new ways of evaluating heart development, diseases ...

For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary procedure ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

Ischemic heart disease affects more than 18 million Americans, making it the leading cause of death nationwide. This condition occurs when coronary arteries become narrowed or blocked, restricting ...

Detecting the faint energy of a human heart beating beneath 10 feet of brick and concrete is a signal-processing feat that almost defies the imagination. Yet that is exactly what rescuers did for four ...

The family of Brooke Dawkins met the woman who received their daughter's heart. — -- The family of a Florida teen who died in 2014 was able to hear her heart beat again after meeting the woman ...