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Heart-attack scars -- once thought permanent -- heal after treatment with a patient's own heart stem cells.

A drug has been used to make hearts repair themselves in research on mice.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A promising cancer treatment drug can restore function of a heart en route to failure from high blood pressure, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- Improving surgery for coronary artery disease is the topic of this exclusive InFocus interview from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons meeting here.

A new study that looked at more than 2,000 urban Spanish adults challenges the thinking that people in Mediterranean countries all enjoy healthy diets and lifestyles.

You might think fat is bad for your heart. But a growing group of scientists says that's not always true.

The same stuff that can make you pudgy around the middle and clog your arteries, they say, might also heal your damaged heart.

Inside a person's own fat are stem cells that they say can limi...

Hundreds of lives could be saved by the NHS using more kidneys for transplant from donors whose hearts have stopped, experts say.

Drinking several cups of coffee or tea a day appears to protect against heart disease, a 13-year study from the Netherlands finds.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Stock market slides may hurt more than your savings. New research suggests they might prompt heart attacks....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A major report confirms what health officials have long believed: Bans on smoking in restaurants, bars and other gathering spots reduce the risk of heart attacks among nonsmokers....