You're using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body. Even at rest, the muscles of the heart work hard—twice as hard as the leg muscles of a person sprinting.

When heart muscle gets damaged, the result is often permanent. Unlike other muscles in the body, the heart has long been believed to lack the ability to heal itself. But recent research suggests that ...

The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist. Your heart pumps blood and oxygen to all of the organs and tissues of the body through a network of “pipes” called arteries and veins. The heart ...

So the heart pumps blood through the aortic valve to all the cells in the body. When aortic stenosis occurs, there is a tightening and oftentimes calcification of the aortic valve and that leads ...

Time for some virtual biology! Welcome to the heart. The heart is a muscle which pumps blood non-stop through a huge network of blood vessels, delivering oxygen and nutrients to every part of the ...

CorWave said the results mark the final stage of CorWave’s preclinical development, paving the way for a first-in-human study ...