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The heart muscle, also known as the cardiac muscle, makes up the thick middle layer of the heart. It is one of three types of vertebrate muscle tissue, the other two being the skeletal muscle and smooth muscle. The heart muscle constitutes the main tissue of the wall of the heart. Credit: Shutterstock.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most of the 20 million adults in the United States with chr ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 13, 2016Cardiology
An international team of scientists is on the cutting edge of a new treatment for cardiac arrhythmia that uses light bea ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 12, 2016Videos
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For unknown reasons, some people are sensitive to certain medications to treat heart conditions like cardiomyopathy. Sci ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 23, 2016Videos
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Scientists working in collaboration at Harvard, Stanford and Sogang Universities were inspired by batoid fish such as st ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 07, 2016Health & Medicine
Traditional beta-blockers target beta1-adrenergic receptors, which helps to prevent heart cells from dying and exacerbat ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 01, 2016Cardiology
Over 840 sudden deaths in athletes were due to cardiovascular problems, out of 2400 total deaths between 1980 and 2011. ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 28, 2016Cardiology
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CARBOHYDRATES Carbohydrates are your mind and body's main source of energy. There are two types of carbs: complex and si ...Written By: Julianne Chiaet
SEP 16, 2016
Cardiology
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most of the 20 million adults in the United States with chr
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 13, 2016
Cardiology
An international team of scientists is on the cutting edge of a new treatment for cardiac arrhythmia that uses light bea
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 12, 2016
Videos
One day Luther Glenn was rushed to the emergency room, given a spinal tap, and diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome. W
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 11, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Junk DNA refers to regions of the genome that did not at first appear to have any function or relevance. Research over t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 08, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Triathletes are some of the fittest people on the planet. For the Summer Olympics in Rio, Gwen Jorgensen became the firs
...
SEP 06, 2016
Cardiology
The proteins that make some species of deep sea jellyfish glow are helping scientists study human heart cells. While it&
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 03, 2016
Videos
Almost all animals with a spine yawn. Penguins yawn as a mating ritual, snakes yawn to realign their jaws after a big me
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 01, 2016
Cardiology
A series of genetic disorders, some rare and some common, are connected to a heart condition that can cause sudden cardi
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 29, 2016
Cardiology
For unknown reasons, some people are sensitive to certain medications to treat heart conditions like cardiomyopathy. Sci
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 23, 2016
Videos
For some people, the desire to stay young is worth the cost of all the cosmetic creams and even surgical procedures. But
...
AUG 22, 2016
Cardiology
Diagnoses based on genetic testing results from the past ten years may be misdiagnosing some groups of people with a ser
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 16, 2016
Cardiology
Many people who have a heart attack will have to undergo either a coronary angioplasty or a coronary artery bypass graft
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 15, 2016
Cardiology
Image Credit: Anssi Koskinen/Flickr There’s currently no treatment for cardiac fibrosis, a leading cause of heart
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
AUG 10, 2016
Cardiology
Cardiovascular problems are among the top causes of death in people with sickle cell anemia, a genetic disease caused by
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 09, 2016
Cardiology
One of the many methods behind improving treatment for adverse cardiovascular events include helping the heart help itse
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 08, 2016
Technology
Robots are cool, and what’s even cooler than robots are cybernetic organisms. Although we’re not quite there
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 04, 2016
Videos
The Summer Olympics are set to open in Rio this Friday. Yet, months before this, scandals emerged of drug doping among O
...
AUG 03, 2016
Cancer
Some people who work the graveyard shift may be compensated more in pay, but scientific evidence suggest passing up on t
...
JUL 19, 2016
Health & Medicine
Moms who eat high-fat, high-sugar diets may be putting future generations at risk for metabolic problems, even when thei
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JUL 16, 2016
Videos
Scientists working in collaboration at Harvard, Stanford and Sogang Universities were inspired by batoid fish such as st
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 07, 2016
Health & Medicine
Traditional beta-blockers target beta1-adrenergic receptors, which helps to prevent heart cells from dying and exacerbat
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 01, 2016
Cardiology
Over 840 sudden deaths in athletes were due to cardiovascular problems, out of 2400 total deaths between 1980 and 2011.
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 28, 2016
Cardiology
The new cardiac patch technology is more than just a pacemaker, researchers from Harvard University describe in a new st
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 18, 2016
Videos
CARBOHYDRATES Carbohydrates are your mind and body's main source of energy. There are two types of carbs: complex and si
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet