Have you ever paused to wonder how many times your heart has beaten since birth? This incredible organ works tirelessly, never resting, yet most of us rarely consider its relentless rhythm, ...

Atrium Health’s heart transplant team could potentially double its number of patients thanks to a new technology that keeps a heart beating outside the body, doctors on the team said at a news ...

For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary procedure ...

Detecting the faint energy of a human heart beating beneath 10 feet of brick and concrete is a signal-processing feat that almost defies the imagination. Yet that is exactly what rescuers did for four ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

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 ...

You know the feeling. When you first see your crush and your head starts spinning, your palms get sweaty, and your heart begins beating a mile a minute. Is this love? Or is it … an arrhythmia? The ...