The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

Valparaiso University’s physician assistant students stepped into the human heart through virtual reality technology.

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a pioneering method to mend damaged hearts without open-heart surgery, an advance that ...

Imagine you could grow a new limb or a new organ. We would be able to live forever if that were the case. However, while we ...

The second patient to receive a pig heart in place of his own has died. He lived just six weeks, two weeks less than the first recipient. Lawrence Faucette, 58, had received a heart from a gene-edited ...

Last summer, after more than a decade of illness, Lawrence Faucette and his wife, Ann, faced the hard reality that the end of his life was near. He was 58 and had end-stage heart failure. Peripheral ...