Think only women get broken heart syndrome? Think again. This rare heart condition is far more deadly in men, and science is racing to understand why.

"This shows that the heart can indeed repair itself if given the opportunity," said Dr. Douglas Zipes, a past president of the American College of Cardiology.

The heart has limited ability to heal itself, but new research and advanced treatments are bringing hope to millions with heart problems.

If the heart can make new cells on its own, there may be ways to accelerate that process and speed up healing. "There's a promise this may be a way to get the heart to repair itself," Bucholtz said.

The heart is capable of terminating arrhythmias itself after local gene therapy, potentially avoiding the need for patients to undergo painful electric shocks, according to a proof-of-concept study.

Michael Crowe, a 23-year-old from Omaha, Neb., was in desperate need of a heart transplant when the incredible happened: His heart healed itself, the Omaha World-Herald reported. Crowe first began ...

The ability of the human heart to renew itself by regenerating its muscle cells, myocytes, is very limited. But what happens to this capability when the heart is damaged by severe heart failure ...

In a finding that may open new approaches to treating heart disease, Swedish scientists have succeeded in measuring a highly controversial property of the human heart: the rate at which its muscle ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown connection between processes that keep the heart from repairing itself.

Driving to work, playing with grandchildren, even walking up a flight of stairs – all of these everyday activities might be a thing of the past for someone who has suffered a major heart attack ...

British doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: They implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart. After 10 years with two blood ...

New insight into the heart's ability to repair itself could help scientists develop ways to improve recovery after a heart attack, a new study of mice suggests. Researchers found that a signaling ...