Technically, your heart isn’t made of gold. And don't wear it in on your sleeve—you’ll make a mess. Here are 11 scientific ...

Cardiovascular Services The Heart Center at St. Mark’s offers a variety of services for people with heart conditions. The ...

Developed by Northwestern Engineering’s Igor Efimov and George Washington University’s Luyao Lu, the implantable device uses ...

Objective The study was to test proof-of-principle if genetically engineered mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) transfected with HCN2 genes can be modified to be cardiac pacemaker cells. Methods (1) MSCs ...

The pink, white and red blob of tissue quivers in a vat of clear goop about the size of a kitchen sink. Graduate students ...

which responded to a pacemaker. Conclusions: We recommend that patients with myotonic dystrophy and any indication or a family history of myotonic heart disease have at least a yearly ...

The Accent MRI pacemaker, with the Tendril MRI lead, is an MRI conditional system, offering safe performance of a full-body MRI scan on the patient using a 1.5 T (Tesla) field-strength MRI scanner.

A disrupted protein degradation process in heart muscle cells can lead to a range of severe heart diseases. In the case of ...

A dietary supplement developed at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute has been found to stop the progression of heart ...

The Identity pacemaker models 5370 and 5376 feature AF management, a suite of therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities designed to manage pacemaker patients suffering from AF. This tool kit includes: ...

In all, 280 measurements were taken at distances ranging from direct skin contact over, to 3 cm away from, the implanted cardiac devices. Magnetic interference was observed in all patients.

A new study has identified an enzyme that plays an important role in breaking down unneeded or damaged proteins in the heart -- an important process for maintaining heart health.