NBCNews.com recently interviewed Martha Gulati, MD, director of Preventive Cardiology in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, about a study that found...
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Scientists are now tapping into new stem cell-based technologies to grow highly complex 3D balls of heart cells functioning much like a full-size heart...
10 months ago

A new type of surgically implanted pump that can support a child's failing heart has passed the first stage of human testing in a Stanford Medicine-led...
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Now, in a study in zebrafish and human heart muscle cells, researchers show that a tiny deletion in the A-band of titin — the loss of just nine amino acids out...
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Micro and nanoplastics, tiny pieces of plastic scattered throughout the environment, have been increasingly found to be able to enter the body,...
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People with microplastics and nanoplastics in plaque lining a major blood vessel in their neck may have a higher risk of heart attack, stroke or death,...
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A mini heart attack, or angina, is chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to heart. It's less severe than a full heart attack but still serious.
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Lupus is characterized by a large number of autoantibodies, immune proteins that mistakenly target a person's own tissues or organs.
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Tiny Warrior Triumphs: Two-Year-Old's Journey Through Open Heart Surgery and Leukemia Treatment. By the time she was two years old, Finley Jo Gunter had...
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by studying two tiny fish—zebrafish, which can regenerate heart muscle after injury, and medaka, which can't—scientists are one step closer to understanding how...
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