Catherine O'Hara's heart and organs were a mirror image of most people's. Though that is rare, congenital heart defects are fairly common.

Australian researchers have uncovered a crucial new mechanism that helps explain how the heart's major blood vessels form during early development, and how disruptions to this process can lead to ...

Human heart development is largely influenced by neural crest cells, which carefully regulate a key growth signal.

Millions of people live with atrial fibrillation, a racing, uneven heartbeat that can leave you exhausted and scared. Yet it has been at least 30 years since a new drug for this common rhythm problem ...

Heart disease kills 18 million people each year, but the development of new therapies faces a bottleneck: no physiological model of the entire human heart exists – so far. A new multi-chamber organoid ...

The study uncovers critical insights into sex-based heart disease risks, highlighting young adulthood as key for effective ...

Historical data indicate that men develop coronary heart disease (CHD) 10 years before women. A study in the Journal of the ...

Decades-long study suggests heart disease prevention and screening should happen sooner.

Men face a higher risk of cardiovascular disease earlier than women, so heart health awareness, prevention and early ...

A new study out of Northwestern Medicine found that the risk of heart disease starts around age 35 for men. Heart disease and ...