Frank Heart, the engineer who oversaw development of the first routing computer for the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet, died Sunday at a retirement community in Lexington, Massachusetts. He ...

Cardiotoxicity, heart electrophysiology dysfunction or muscle damage, is one of the most common reasons why drugs are withdrawn from the market. Now, researchers have created a computer model capable ...

just named winner of NASA’s Commercial Invention of the Year Award. Also known as a ‘ventricular assist device’ (VAD), the pump is currently undergoing human trials with patients awaiting heart ...

Cardiovascular tissue engineering aims to treat heart disease with prostheses that grow and regenerate. Now, researchers have successfully implanted regenerative heart valves, designed with the aid of ...

Starting this fall, the FDA plans to trial an innovative new computational medicine approach to heart surgery with 160 patients in the US. The procedure, called Optimal Target Identification via ...

Research from a collaborative team of biomedical engineers, physicians and scientists could enable significant advances for the 40,000 pediatric congenital heart disease patients (CHD) born each year.

Dutch medical researchers have developed a technique by which a computer can determine the condition of the left heart chamber or ventricle. The computer draws the contours of the heart on the X-ray ...