23 June 2023
A new technique enables 3D printing of miniature heart chambers called ventricles that can beat on their own, and may one day help create whole hearts for transplantation
20 May 2023
Injecting gene-edited heart cells into rats with damaged hearts kept more of them alive and had them exercising for longer – and tests in humans could start in 2025
24 February 2023
Doing high-intensity interval training is safe for people having cardiac rehabilitation and increases their cardiorespiratory fitness faster than currently recommended moderate exercise, according to a clinical trial
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
17 June 2022
In an approximate 11-year cycle, the sun blasts out charged particles and magnetised plasma that can distort Earth’s magnetic field, which may disrupt our body clock and ultimately affect the heart
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
10 February 2022
Insights from a synthetic fish built from plastic and gelatine and powered by human cardiac cells might one day be useful for treating heart disease
9 February 2022
A large real-world study adds to clinical trial evidence that people who do yoga tend to have lower blood pressure, which may prevent heart attacks and strokes
26 August 2021
The magnets used in the iPhone 12 and Apple Watch 6 are strong enough to disrupt medical implants such as pacemakers if held too close to the body, according to tests done by the US Food and Drug Administration
