Researchers pinpointed the purpose of mysterious heart neurons in mice—and humans have them, too When you get up out of a chair, your blood pressure instantly increases to compensate for the movement ...

A hidden waste-removal pathway in the brain has finally been caught in action. Using cutting-edge MRI scans, researchers ...

Good circulation is one of those things you don't really think about until something feels off, like those cold fingers in ...

For patients with heart failure, blood pumps can be lifesaving. But the very forces that sustain circulation can also harm it ...

BIPV cladding with closed-edge aluminum honeycomb backing developed for The Myron and Berna Garron Health Sciences Complex (SAMIH), at the University of Toronto Scarborough, demonstrating how ...

Organ donation after the heart stops beating, a practice called donation after circulatory death, has gone from rare to routine in the United States, a new study shows. This shift over the past 25 ...

The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they’re increasingly coming from people who died when their heart stopped beating, a major shift that can boost ...

Your doctor submits a claim to your health insurance. The claim is denied. You might be justified in thinking the denial is due to a medical disagreement. After all, adjudicating what health care ...

Have you ever said "I'm fine" when you clearly weren't? Or volunteered to take care of something when you were already drowning? Or caught yourself thinking "I'm sick of this" while mentally listing ...

It started, Kara recalls, the first week of January 2023. “I had a new planner” — a classic black Moleskine — “and I went to get it out of my tote bag one night, and it was just soaked. My travel cup ...

Cardiogenic shock is characterized by depression of cardiac function that leads to low blood pressure, coronary ischemia, and further decreased cardiac contractility resulting in tissue hypoxemia. The ...