The cause of heart disease is generally clogged arteries. These blood vessels can be blocked by fatty plaque that contains ...

Kidneys are vital organs responsible for filtering waste products, including creatinine, from the blood. Creatinine is a ...

More than 1 in 7 adults are estimated to have chronic kidney disease, which is a progressive decrease in kidney function. As many as 9 in 10 of them don’t know they have it.

FOR many conditions, particularly those without a cure, prevention is key. When it comes to slashing your risk of age-related ...

Usually, doctors aim to lower the top number of a person’s blood pressure (called systolic pressure) to below 140 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). But in this study, researchers tried something ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ...

Professor Kenji Osafune (Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation) and his team of researchers have devised an effective ...

Excess salt can irritate the stomach lining, increasing the risk of gastric ulcers and acid reflux. Additionally, high sodium ...

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Renal artery stenosis is the narrowing of one or both blood vessels to the kidneys. The ...

Nellie Zygiel of Fairhaven has battled illness much of her life. Diagnosed with a rare disease, her life has been saved ...

Right now, there are five main types of medicine that are approved to treat high blood pressure. These include ACE inhibitors ...