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

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

High blood pressure puts a lot of extra stress on your body. Over time, it can cause hardening of the arteries. It can also damage your brain, kidneys ... open up blood vessels, which improves ...

DKA happens when your blood sugar is very high and acidic substances called ketones build up to dangerous levels in your body. DKA only happens when you don’t have enough insulin in your body to ...

Your kidney function test results are a measure of how well your kidneys are working to filter your blood and remove excess water and waste from the body. For example, the estimated glomerular ...

Coronary artery disease has long been understood through the paradigm of epicardial coronary artery obstruction, causing ...

This can be done through surgery or through a transcatheter, which is a minimally invasive procedure done with a catheter through a blood vessel in the groin or the ... mortality of 3% or less and ...

I am a baby boomer who was born in 1949. I was vaccinated against polio as soon as it was available, and I was most likely ...

The donor organ was connected to the recipient’s blood vessels and allowed to function ... Hospital performed similar experiments with pig kidneys. And earlier this year, scientists at the ...

The pleura is comprised of two layers: The visceral and parietal pleura join at the hilum, which serves as the point of entry for blood vessels, nerves ... Pleura space anatomy. J Thorac Dis.