You asked. We answer. Here's an easy-to-read, illustrated guide to heart disease. Most heart attacks are the end result of coronary heart disease, a condition that clogs coronary arteries with ...

Sound familiar? If you listen to your heart beat, you'll hear two sounds. These "lub" and "DUB" sounds are made by the heart valves as they open and close. See the valves in action.

During a 6-hour operation in Sydney last November, doctors implanted the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart, a mechanical blood pump made out of titanium, into a man who was experiencing severe heart ...

Christiaan Barnard recalled events in December of 1967, when he became the first surgeon to perform a heart transplant on ... Although his endorsement made him a great deal of money, it tarnished ...