The FDA recently approved a bioengineered blood vessel, which becomes part of a patient’s body over time. It’s designed to ...

Harvard researchers, who have studied over 40,000 doctors and 88,000 nurses for more than two decades, found that women who ...

To some degree, clogged arteries can be mitigated and reversed—the real challenge is catching the condition in time to do so. “The complexity of blocked arteries and heart disease is that most ...

Known as a 'silent killer', high cholesterol levels can cause multiple issues before the real, life-threatening problems ...

A new predictive model developed by Ochsner Health helps clinicians make real-time decisions for patients who had a stroke undergoing urgent carotid intervention, improving chances of regaining ...

A stent is a small mesh tube inserted into an artery that has been narrowed by plaque build-up. In the US, nearly two million stents are implanted every year, and they can be life-saving during a ...

During an angioplasty procedure, doctors open the blocked artery with a balloon catheter and insert a stent to keep the artery open and blood flowing effectively. The stent permanently remains in ...

The Port St. Lucie Police Department and St. Lucie County Fire District Station 17 arrived at their home and tried to save ...

A low-risk angioplasty is used to widen a clogged artery and then insert a tiny balloon on a narrow tube -- a catheter -- to improve blood flow to the heart. Previously, Hudson Regional was ...