Millions of people live with atrial fibrillation, a racing, uneven heartbeat that can leave you exhausted and scared. Yet it ...

Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at ...

Frustrated by his inability to help these men, Harken began a series of experimental surgeries on animals. In the first round, all his subjects died, but with each round, Harken improved methods to ...

Pioneering research by experts at the University of Sydney, the Baird Institute and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in ...

David KC Cooper, Global Cardiology Science & Practice 2018, CC BY 4.0 Organ transplants today are a life-saving option that offers many people a solution to damaged or unhealthy organs including the ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast heartbeat, it's been at least 30 years since any new treatments have been ...

A surgeon who led the UK’s first successful human heart transplant operation has died aged 93. Sir Terence English performed the procedure on Keith Castle, a 52-year-old builder, at a hospital in the ...