Tis the season for watching Home Alone. To celebrate, a professor of anatomy explained how badly Kevin McCallister's traps would have actually hurt the ...

A San Diego jury handed down a staggering $18,056,088 verdict on Thursday against a local neurosurgeon, finding him negligent ...

New U.S. guidelines emphasize treating peripheral artery disease (PAD) as a critical warning sign for overall cardiovascular ...

An AHA scientific statement provides a framework for coronary revascularization in older adults, focusing on individualized care and patient preferences.

In recent decades, high-resolution ultrasound (HRUS) has revolutionized the morphological and structural evaluation of peripheral nerves and muscles, revealing details of the internal structure of the ...

"You may have 70% blocked arteries and feel perfectly fine", until one day the warning bells get loud. The arteries don't scream for help; they whisper. And most people turn a deaf ear to such ...

Opening all blocked arteries with stents in patients with a heart attack, known as complete revascularization, reduces the risk of death from cardiovascular causes, death from any cause and future ...

9 Univ Rouen Normandie, Normandie Univ, Inserm U1245 and CHU Rouen, Department of Radiology, F-76000 Rouen, France This article presents a practical anatomical atlas of the arterial neuroanatomy of ...

The brainstem is a roughly 3-inch structure in the brain, composed of three sections. The brainstem is key to functions that include heart and breathing rate, as well as coordination, balance, taste ...

A new generation of “theranostic” nanoparticles has been shown to both detect and reduce plaques in the arteries. Nanoparticles absorbed by immune cells in the arteries, where they work to lower ...

New trial results show that intense gum disease treatment reduces how much the carotid artery narrows in otherwise healthy individuals. This suggests oral health should be taken seriously as a ...

Your arteries are meant to be flexible tubes that expand and contract with each heartbeat, efficiently delivering oxygen-rich blood throughout your body. However, as we age and face various lifestyle ...