Sheets of lab-grown muscle are being tested as a radical new treatment for heart attacks and heart failure. Promising results ...

Patches of beating, lab-grown muscle sewn into failing hearts can keep patients alive for years while they wait for a transplant, scientists have shown. In a major breakthrough, 15 patients suffering ...

Previous attempts to use cell therapies have failed - but early results using a new type of muscle patch look promising ...

Patches of beating, lab-grown muscle sewn into failing hearts can keep patients alive for years while they wait for a ...

In "remarkable" work, a patch of engineered heart muscle cells was used to strengthen a patient's heart before transplant.

The city laid out a series of proposals to reduce cancer deaths by 20 percent, and deaths from heart- and diabetes-related ...

Heart failure is a pathological condition in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood to the rest of the body, because it is either unable to fill with a sufficient volume of blood or unable ...

Cardiac ablation has emerged as a transformative medical procedure for patients struggling with irregular heart rhythms particularly atrial fibrillation AFib By targeting and eliminating problematic a ...

The authors reported 45% of the people had died within 10 years, with an average loss of 2.6 years of life expectancy. Stroke and heart failure were common, as were rehospitalizations, but the life ...

People in France are living “historically longer”, new national figures show, with a life expectancy at birth of 85.6 for women, and 80 for men. National statistics bureau Insee published the figures ...

They immediately assessed the situation and decided Trey needed to be taken to a hospital that had access to an artificial heart and life support machine called ... "I have now learnt that sickness is ...

Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Heart failure (HF) is the end stage of various cardiovascular diseases. Despite recent advancements in ...