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Married adults who undergo heart surgery are more than three times as likely as single people who have the same surgery to survive the next three months, a new study finds.

In the first of four scientific tours of the heart, Prof Michael Shattock of King's College London tells the story of a single heartbeat

We designed this reel to showcase our hottest cardiology products at the 2011 ACC. American College of Cardiology conference in New Orleans.

Scientists at the University of Arizona are working to develop better therapies to manage heart defects in newborns. An obscure filter-feeding sea animal holds the promise of helping to unravel the complex mechanisms underlying heart formation and develop new diagnostics for congenital heart defects

"The secret elixir of life may have less to do with wheat germ and more with cocoa" - Boston Globe

In a unique collaboration, poets and scientists used thermal imaging cameras to investigate whether love poems can really ignite 'instant fires' in every pore...

Heart rate variability, a sign of a healthy heart, has been shown to be higher in yoga practitioners than in non-practitioners, according to new research.

No more scalpels – tomorrow's lifesaving operations will use robots that crawl over your heart, scuttle into your ear and swim into your eye... Be confident !

They usually blame an expanding waist line on too much wine and a lack of exercise. But the problem could be something more insidious.

Researchers found that people with a rare variation of the mu-opoid receptor gene, OPRM1, were more sensitive to rejection and experience more distress than those with the more common form.