While pericytes are important regulators of capillary function and homeostasis, the lack of specific markers has hampered the ...

Background Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction leads to an increase in pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) and potentially right ...

Here we report a rare and challenging case of an 81-year-old woman with high-risk unstable angina undergoing emergency catheterization which indicated the presence of single-vessel coronary artery ...

Unresolved disagreements hinder progress towards the UN led treaty that could protect human and environmental health from the harms of plastic pollution, write Cressida Bowyer and Stephen Fletcher In ...

One figure widely quoted by pest control companies: There are 1,000 pounds of termites for every human on Earth. If you like big numbers, the 2018 report is delicious reading. Recently ...

Jonas Frisén, MD, PhD, and Olaf Bergmann, MD, PhD, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, led teams in Sweden and Germany and used their own innovative method of carbon dating human heart ...

Department of Pediatrics (T.S., J.-R.M., Y.H.C., J.M.S., J. Kaplan, A.C., L.W., D.G., S.T., S.I., M.D., W.Y., A.L.M., M.R.) Stanford Cardiovascular Institute (T.S., J ...

"Every cancer has a flower—my cancer is a sunflower. The sunflower is the only flower that can grow 6 feet tall. It is resilient," the mom said.

PCTA is an X-ray in which contrast materials are used to capture images of your pulmonary arteries (the blood vessels that run from your heart to your lungs). During the procedure, dye is injected ...

Long before we're born, our heart's tissues twitch and convulse in a rhythm that only ceases in our final hour. It's a function so mechanical we could be forgiven for overlooking its complexity. Yet ...

Up to 50% of patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) experience hemodynamic instability and approximately 70% of patients who die of PE experience an accelerated cascade of symptoms within the first ...