Map of the Human Heart Let's get straight to the heart of the matter—the heart's job is to move blood. Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body.

For the first time, the fully mechanical heart made by BiVACOR, which uses the same technology as high-speed rail lines, has been implanted inside a human being. The feat marks a major step in ...

The same insulin resistance that leads to type 2 diabetes is also linked to heart problems. Here’s why managing diabetes helps protect your heart health, too.

Heart attacks conjure images of someone clutching their chest in sudden, dramatic pain. Yet a startling reality exists in cardiovascular medicine: you can indeed experience a heart attack without ...

The risk for a heart attack in the first week after the death was more than triple the rate of people who had not experienced the loss of a child, and there was a 20 to 40 percent increased risk ...

For the second time ever, a pig heart has been transplanted into a living human recipient, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced on Friday.

The heart’s apex is located at the bottom tip of the heart. It consists of the left and right ventricles. Conditions affecting the heart’s apex include myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, and heart ...

Map of the Human Heart Originally appeared on the NOVA Web site Cut to the Heart. Let's get straight to the heart of the matter—the heart's job is to move blood.