Heart News

Paris - French biomedical firm Carmat said Tuesday it would implant its experimental artificial heart into another three people, as planned, after the first recipient died.In an email to AFP, the company said it was too soon to draw conclusions about the devic...

Paris - People who have outbursts of anger are at greater risk of having a heart attack or stroke in the two hours immediately after the episode, European researchers said Tuesday.The study -- a big review of published papers -- is the first to give powerful s...

Windsor - Ann and Nancy Wilson from the rock band Heart released their newest "Fanatic Live from Caesars Colosseum" CD and DVD deluxe edition on Frontier Records on February 25.

Paris - A septuagenarian man who was fitted with the French biomedical firm Carmat's first artificial heart two and half months ago has died, a hospital statement said Monday."Seventy-five days after the implant of the first Carmat artificial heart bioprosthes...

Scientists have developed a catheter-based device that can provide forward-looking, real-time, three-dimensional imaging from inside the heart, coronary arteries, and peripheral blood vessels.

Researchers from the University of Missouri recently found success using a drug to treat laboratory mice with one form of congenital heart disease.

Chicago - The reason people have more heart attacks when air pollution levels rise may have been revealed by a study on the impact of the BP oil spill on tuna, scientists said Thursday.Heart problems in humans and fish have long been linked to air pollution and ...

Washington - The popular painkiller naproxen, manufactured by German drug giant Bayer, has the same cardiovascular risks as rival medicines, US regulators said Tuesday.Scientists from Oxford University had concluded that naproxen -- sold under the brand name Aleve ...

Engineering new heart tissue in the laboratory that could eventually be implanted into patients could help patients to recover from heart attacks, a new report suggests.

Medical research has shown that the injection of microscopic particles of a plastic-like material protects mice from cardiac tissue damage following a heart attack.