Let's get straight to the heart of the matter—the heart's job is to move blood. Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body. When blood returns ...

In this cross-sectional study of men involved in recreational strength training, those with current or previous use of ...

A team led by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill have developed an innovative computer model of blood flow in the human heart that promises to transform how we understand, diagnose, and treat heart ...

the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. You're using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body.

As your heart expands, blood flows from your body into its chambers ... This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the topic to life and would enhance ...

The new technique outperformed human experts examining images ... up in the arteries that deliver blood to the heart. This chokes off blood flow and potentially sets the stage for heart attacks ...

If we scrutinize the mechanism of the heart, we shall find that it ... at the mouth of the aorta to force the blood through the vessels of the human body, is estimated by Hales, as being equal ...

Human blood pressure ... or the force at which your heart pumps blood around your body. The lower number, diastolic pressure, is the resistance to the blood flow in the blood vessels.

A team of UVM scientists led by Mark Nelson, Ph.D., from the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, has uncovered a novel mechanism that reshapes our understanding of how blood flow ...