A heart attack activates stress circuits in the brain that evolved for survival but can amplify inflammation, disrupt healing ...

In mice, blocking heart-to-brain signals improved healing after a heart attack, hinting at new targets for cardiac therapy.

Researchers from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the Leiden-based biotech company Ncardia have joined forces to ...

The brain and vagus nerve play a key role in exacerbating tissue damage after a heart attack, but there are ways to block it.

Millions of people live with atrial fibrillation, a racing, uneven heartbeat that can leave you exhausted and scared. Yet it ...

This unexpected ability opens the door for scientists to stimulate cellular mitosis and improve heart function after an ...

Scientists in Australia made an exciting new finding in a recent study.

A team of scientists from Harvard Medical School and Duke University has created a new kind of tissue that can change heart activity using only light—no wires, no surgery, no harm. This groundbreaking ...

Newborns with heart complications can rely on their newly developed immune systems to regenerate cardiac tissues, but adults aren't so lucky. After a heart attack, most adults struggle to regenerate ...

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at least, that's what has long been presumed. Scientists in Australia have now ...

For years, doctors have watched patients with failing kidneys die not from kidney failure itself but from sudden heart attacks and heart failure. Now a cluster of studies is pointing to a specific ...