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 ...

A medical team at National Taiwan University Hospital reports that they’ve completed the first beating heart transplant—a procedure in which a donor heart experiences no reduced blood flow during ...

A new transplant procedure could be the answer to enhancing access and successful outcomes for patients in need of a new heart. Known as a beating-heart transplant, the process reduces the times a ...

For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never skips a beat in the process, reducing the damage that can occur during such a ...

A fast heartbeat can be caused by emotions like stress or anxiety. Dehydration, or drinking caffeine or other stimulants, can ...

Marv and Carol Vandermolen’s home sits quietly in a town just outside of Kalamazoo. “By the time I retired, I knew there was a problem," said Marv, who learned that problem was cardiomyopathy -- a ...

The boy had been diagnosed with strep A , which caused his body to go into sepsis and led to cardiac arrest Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Combining a biological heart and a silicone robotic pump, researchers created a biorobotic heart that beats like a real one, with a focus on a valve on the left side of the heart. The heart valve ...

Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating pig’s heart floating in clear liquid. Graduate and undergraduate students ...

Mom of the donor heart recipient: "We were crying and falling to the floor." — -- Monday was bittersweet for two tearful families who met after a heart donation saved one teenager's life, after ...