Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body. When blood returns to the heart, it follows a complicated pathway. If you were in the bloodstream ...

A man who received a transplanted heart that was kept 'alive' for five hours outside the body said he feels like he has been given "a whole new life". James Walton, 34, is the first person at ...

This clip is an introduction to the human heart. We find out about its location within the body and its function as a pump. The heart sits within the chest cavity between the lungs and is about ...

Vanellope Wilkins was born with ectopia cordis, an extremely rare condition which caused her heart to beat outside her body. No baby in the UK has ever survived it before her. The condition was ...

It also shows how the pacemaker cells restart her heart after the surgery. This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the topic to life and would enhance ...

Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body. When blood returns to the heart, it follows a complicated pathway. If you were in the bloodstream ...

A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego and Stanford University has developed a noninvasive ...