The heart is a powerful pump made of muscle (myocardium). It is divided into four chambers: the upper two atria are the receiving chambers and the lower two ventricles are the pumping chambers.

New hope offered by a pharmacy team for treating heart disease by sharing insights into the fundamental process of how the heart is formed in utero.

A new study found that cannabis users under the age of 50 are about 6.2 times more likely to experience a heart attack than ...

Insights into the fundamental process of how the heart is formed offer new hope for treating heart disease. The findings focus on long, thin, channels of membranes – called Tunneling Nanotube-Like ...

Chest pain can be alarming, with the potential confusion between a heart attack and gastric pain. Heart attack pain feels ...

From his lab at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy Drug Discovery Institute, Mingfu Wu, associate professor, is ...

Approximately one-quarter of all myocardial infarctions are "silent", that is without chest pain or other symptoms. Among the diagnostic tests available to detect heart muscle damage are an ...

Also known as a myocardial infarction, a heart attack occurs when the flow of blood that brings oxygen to a part of the heart ...

A heart attack is known as myocardial infarction in the medical fraternity. The word ‘Myo’ means muscle while ‘cardial’ denotes heart. ‘Infarction’, on the other hand, refers to death ...

Interactive Tool Harnesses Real-World Data to Visualize Burden of Disease in HCM and Advance Equitable Access to CareSOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., ...

MEDSTAR CARDIAC SURGEON DOCTOR RACHEL HARRISON SAYS SEAN’S HEART MUSCLE ITSELF WAS IN GOOD SHAPE. SO WE CAUGHT HIS AS HIS MYOCARDIUM, THE HEART MUSCLE IN TIME BEFORE IT STARTED TO HAVE A BEFORE ...