Millions of people live with atrial fibrillation, a racing, uneven heartbeat that can leave you exhausted and scared. Yet it has been at least 30 years since a new drug for this common rhythm problem ...

Australian researchers have uncovered a crucial new mechanism that helps explain how the heart's major blood vessels form during early development, and how disruptions to this process can lead to ...

Catherine O'Hara's heart and organs were a mirror image of most people's. Though that is rare, congenital heart defects are fairly common.

Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists – so far. A new multi-chamber organoid ...

Human heart development is largely influenced by neural crest cells, which carefully regulate a key growth signal.

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common birth defects, but the full extent of its genetic underpinnings has been a mystery. Now, a new study of more than 11,000 children with CHD ...

The study uncovers critical insights into sex-based heart disease risks, highlighting young adulthood as key for effective ...

Men face a higher risk of cardiovascular disease earlier than women, so heart health awareness, prevention and early ...

Decades-long study suggests heart disease prevention and screening should happen sooner.

A new study out of Northwestern Medicine found that the risk of heart disease starts around age 35 for men. Heart disease and ...