Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a heart disease that leads to a stressed, swollen heart muscle. Due to a poor understanding of underlying mechanisms, effective clinical treatments are not available.

Understanding the mechanisms behind cell death and survival is crucial when it comes to conditions like heart failure, which affects millions of people worldwide. Now, researchers from Japan have ...

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have discovered a mechanism involving ribosomes which helps the heart toggle between a 'regular maintenance mode' for day-to-day ...

MORRISVILLE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tenax Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TENX), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on identifying and developing therapeutics that address cardiopulmonary diseases ...

The most common cause of sudden death in young athletes - a heart condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - can develop from a single genetic mutation that disrupts at least two other genes, ...

(Philadelphia, PA) – Therapeutic strategies capable of repairing the heart stand to revolutionize the treatment of heart disease. Reaching that goal, however, requires extensive knowledge of the ...

Researchers headed by teams at Michigan Medicine and Mayo Clinic have discovered how a molecular process that occurs when donor hearts are preserved in cold storage contributes to failure after ...

Heart damage occurs when substances or medical conditions harm heart tissue. Signs of heart damage from drugs may include chest pain, irregular heartbeat, and cough. Substances can affect the cells of ...

Myocarditis is a complication that can occur in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Although the adverse event is rare -- affecting less than 1% of patients given the ...

However, this treatment type may also trigger damaging levels of inflammation in the heart, brain, stomach, and other organs, the researchers say. For example, past studies have shown that about 10% ...