A study reveals heart shape can predict diseases, linking genetics to heart conditions through analysis of 40,000 MRI images.

The right ventricle pumps the blood to the lungs, where the blood releases waste gases and picks up oxygen. The newly oxygen-rich blood (shown in red) returns to the heart and enters the left atrium.

Our lungs are not identical. Our right lung has three lobes, and the left lung only two to make room for our heart. Lungs are ...

Many people do, but the heart is actually located almost in the center of the chest, between the lungs. It's tipped slightly ... During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than ...

Regardless of age, certain health conditions, such as heart and lung disease, obesity, asthma, diabetes and kidney disease, ...

An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...

The number of heart and lung transplants could quadruple thanks to a "reanimation" machine used in a pioneering operation, a hospital says. The device, developed at Royal Papworth Hospital in ...

"As her heart and lungs were both affected ... first time that SMS Medical College used a helicopter for transporting human organs.

Legal experts debate whether Mary is actually a living human being because she does not have a heart or lungs. On the other hand, she does have a separate and functioning brain, so some conclude that ...

This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings ... the use of medical intervention like the heart-lung machine and artificial pace makers.

Researchers found that medical visits for heart and lung problems rose by nearly 20 percent during six days in June, 2023, when smoke from Western Canadian wildfires drifted across the country ...