Interactions with friends and family may keep us healthy because they boost our immune system and reduce our risk of diseases such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, new research suggests.

If you clench your hand into a fist, this is approximately the same size as your heart. It is located in the middle of the chest and slightly towards the left. The heart is a large muscular pump ...

Grasshoppers have what's called an open circulatory system. Fluid isn't enclosed inside blood vessels but is pumped into a cavity inside their bodies where it circulates around their organs.

Atherosclerosis and other vascular inflammatory diseases are determined by the balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory pathways. A report now identifies IGFBP6 as a component of an anti ...

npj Cardiovascular Health is an open access journal: authors pay an article processing charge (APC) for their accepted articles to be open access online and freely accessible immediately upon ...

With aging there are changes in the cardiovascular system, which result in alterations in cardiovascular physiology. The changes in cardiovascular physiology must be differentiated from the ...

More than a 100 open heart surgeries have been performed at Zulekha Hospital by the cardiac team including consultant cardiac surgeons Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Helmy and Dr. Yasser Menaissy. The ...

In this randomized clinical trial, implementation of the electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) monitoring system significantly enhanced patient-physician communication and the clarity of ...

Implementation of an electronic patient-recorded outcome (ePRO) monitoring system improves patient-physician communic ...