Living with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can be challenging because the disease changes the structure of the heart over time.

An important aspect of these assessments has been the use of cardiac ultrasound through which we can assess the structure and function of the heart, how large it is and how the muscle contracts, ...

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Your heart is a muscular organ that helps circulate your blood, which delivers oxygen and nutrients to your tissues. There are four chambers and four valves in your heart, and each ensures proper ...

The next time you train, remember: You’re not just building endurance. You’re upgrading your heart's software. You're ...

A Synthetic Heart That Really Knows How to Fail A team at UNSW Sydney has developed a fully synthetic, programmable soft ...

Trendy weight-loss drugs making headlines for shrinking waistlines may also be shrinking the human heart and other muscles, according to a new University of Alberta study in JACC: Basic to ...

Even highly trained athletes can have underlying structural or electrical heart problems that remain silent until intense exercise exposes them.