We all know that feeling: your heart pounding in your chest, blood pumping fast and furious when you're nervous, stressed, or ...

Every drop of blood in our body goes to the heart and the heart pumps it to every part of the body. Our body gets oxygen from ...

Hamman’s sign (a.k.a. Hamman’s crunch) is a “mediastinal crunch” heard upon auscultation in the setting of mediastinal emphysema (air in the mediastinum). With each heartbeat, the air is ...

Chapman’s sign is used to diagnose an acute myocardial infarction in the setting of a left bundle branch block and consists of a notch in the upslope of the R wave in lead I, aVL or V6.

A recent study from Wiener Kinderstudien Lab at the University of Vienna demonstrates for the first time that babies as young as 3 months can perceive their own heartbeat.

Perceiving one's own body: Babies sense their heartbeat and breathing Body signals play a role in development even in infancy Date: April 7, 2025 Source: University of Vienna Summary: Body signals ...