Your heart has a direct connection to your brain. If your heart weakens, this problem can occur. Vigus Nerve Function: The heart and brain are two of the most important organs in the human body. We ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a pioneering method to mend damaged hearts without open-heart surgery, an advance that ...

In diseased hearts, low-dose radiation therapy appears to improve heart function. Cardiologists and radiation oncologists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis pioneered the use of ...

Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits and pieces of us that are performing miracles on a daily basis." Take the human heart, for instance. If ...

After severe heart failure, the ability of the heart to heal by forming new cells is very low. However, after receiving treatment with a supportive heart pump, the capacity of a damaged heart to ...

Surgeons have developed two low-cost techniques to revive the hearts of people who wish to donate their organs after they die. The methods have been tested on only a small number of people, but they ...