Researchers used to think of heart attacks as being the result of a simple mechanical process, the gradual clogging of the arteries with fatty gunk. As scientists decipher the molecular causes of ...

Heart disease is a leading killer around the world and the top cause of death in the United States. It killed an estimated 17.9 million people in 2019, representing 32% ...

Editor’s Note: This story was drawn entirely from John Rosenfeld’s first-person account of the events surrounding his heart attack while on vacation in Mexico.John Rosenfeld and his wife, Cherish, ...

In "Grey's Anatomy," a woman is admitted to the hospital every year, on the anniversary of a traumatic event in her life, suffering the classic symptoms of a heart attack. But it's not a heart attack.

To many a bright-eyed first year medical student, there’s one experience that marks a real turning point or ‘rite of passage’ into the medical field. That moment when textbook studies leave the stage, ...

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Researchers have developed a 'heart attack on a chip,' a device that could one day serve as a test-bed to develop new heart drugs and even personalized medicines.

The study demonstrates that urocortin-2, through miR-29a, regulates the expression of genes related to a type of cell death called apoptosis, suggesting that miR29a participates in the progressive ...

Heart disease is a leading killer around the world and the top cause of death in the United States. It killed an estimated 17.9 million people in 2019, representing 32% of all deaths globally ...