Long-term use of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) has serious consequences for the heart, according to a new study that has ...

Our series The Expert View brings you specialist health advice from professionals. In this article, we hear from Prof Dan Augustine, a consultant cardiologist and medical director of Sports Cardiology ...

In the late 1960s, three Weizmann Institute of Science researchers developed several protein-like molecules, called copolymers, that they believed would produce a disease similar to multiple sclerosis ...

A compound the body can make after eating pomegranates, walnuts, and some berries improved measures of heart function by up to 80% in animal models of a difficult-to-treat form of heart failure.

Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys report that temporarily blocking the metabolic enzyme succinate dehydrogenase triggers ...

Transferring mitochondria from a patient's healthy skeletal muscle to damaged, ischemic heart tissue has been shown to restore heart muscle, increase energy production, and improve ventricular ...

A compound made naturally by the body after eating certain foods may offer a new way to tackle one of the more difficult ...

Heart failure often develops after a heart attack because excessive collagen-based scar tissue forms during repair. While collagen is necessary to reinforce scars, disease and chronic inflammation can ...

A compound produced in the body after eating pomegranates or walnuts boost heart function by 80% for a difficult-to-treat ...

A hospital in Japan has carried out the world's first surgery using sheets of commercially available heart muscle stem cells ...

Exercise intolerance is a defining feature of chronic heart failure, arising not only from impaired cardiac output but also from profound alterations in skeletal muscle structure and metabolism.

New research published in the European Heart Journal has shown that exposure to light at night is associated with structural ...