25 January 2023
A prototype skin patch produced images that were comparable to those of a standard handheld device used to visualise the heart before and after exercise. Visualising the heart during exercise may aid cardiovascular diagnoses
9 June 2022
A girl with a rare disorder can now breathe more easily after receiving transfusions of a liquid that her sister's umbilical cord stem cells were grown in
30 March 2022
With the mRNA covid-19 vaccines being delivered to growing numbers of young people, researchers are looking again at the rare risk of heart inflammation
2 January 2020
Flushing cold water through a tube down the throat can stop the body overheating, helping prevent brain damage after a heart attack
21 November 2018
Researchers have developed a tool that diagnoses high blood sugar levels simply by analysing the pattern of fluorescent light reflected off the skin
13 September 2018
At its latest product launch, Apple announced its smartwatches would get an upgrade letting people take an ECG of their own heart, but this could do more harm than good
13 December 2017
With a growing shortage of organ donors, doctors are now considering restarting dead people's hearts or even taking organs from patients who are technically alive
10 October 2017
A new way of storing hearts outside the body for a day or more could bring an end to people dying while awaiting an organ for a heart transplant
4 May 2017
To get a new heart valve, patients have to undergo open-heart surgery. But a machine used in such procedures has been contaminating these implants
