When someone suffers a heart attack, their heart is left permanently scarred and thus less capable of pumping blood. According to a new study, however, a protein injection could help undo such damage.

German scientists have promising results from an experimental treatment to mend a broken heart. The treatment involves taking a heart-attack patient's bone-marrow cells, and injecting them into the ...

-- Researchers have shown in a small study that stem cell therapy can reverse heart damage in patients with enlarged hearts due to heart attacks. -- The benefit from stem cell injections was up to ...

A group of researchers based in Australia have developed a protein injection for the heart, to repair damages caused by cardiovascular attacks that were once taught to be irreparable. This study is a ...

Injured heart tissue normally can't regrow, but researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have now laid the groundwork for regenerating heart tissue after a heart attack, in patients with heart ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has approved the first-ever IV iron replacement therapy to improve exercise capacity in adults with ...

LOS ANGELES (EMBARGOED UNTIL DEC. 16, 2012 AT 1 P.M. EST) – Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have reprogrammed ordinary heart cells to become exact replicas of highly specialized pacemaker ...

A multicenter team of researchers within the NIH-funded Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN), led by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, have found end-stage heart failure patients who ...

scPharmaceuticals, which is commercializing injectable version of an intravenous drug for heart failure, filed on Monday with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering. The ...

A heart PET scan is a noninvasive imaging test that uses a small amount of radiation. It helps doctors understand how the heart functions and whether it is healthy. Cardiac or heart PET scans create ...