Structures described by Leonardo da Vinci are crucial to understanding how the heart works, scientists have said (Siemens Healthineers Cinematic Rendering/PA) Structures first described 500 years ago ...

Come along children, we’ve come to the hospital to learn how blood is moved around the body in the circulatory system. These humans are donating blood. The average adult has about 5 litres of the ...

For thousands of years, this vital chest muscle has represented the feelings center of emotions, spirituality and romance. Here's how we got here, and why cardiologists say it's not so far-fetched.

Your resting heart rate is a key health number often ignored. It shows how well your heart works when you are at rest. The article explores why monitoring resting heart rate (RHR) is one of the ...

A calculator has been developed that shows the true age of your heart, helping people to estimate their risk of heart disease later in life. The JBS3 calculator has been created by a group of British ...

Your healthcare professional may offer you tests (see box below: 'What tests should I be offered to help decide which procedure is best for me?') to help decide which procedure is most appropriate for ...

Timing, they say, is everything in life, and hearts are the most time-critical of all transplant operations. After only two hours out of the donor, the risks start to increase for the recipient. Four ...

The heart is perhaps the body’s most resilient organ and, along with the brain, its most essential. The female heart, which weighs about eight ounces, beats 100,000 times a day (2.5 billion times in a ...