Roger Black was told two things when his cardiologist sat him down with the news that he must prepare for open heart surgery.

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It's federally illegal but marijuana is legal recreationally or medically across dozens of states, and pregnant women who use ...

Vaping has been found to increase both heart rate and blood pressure. It can put your cardiovascular system in a state of ...

The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) has a single moving part: a levitated rotor held in place by magnets. As the name ...

A new UCSF study shows that the human lungs have just as many blood-producing stem cells as bone marrow. These stem cells are ...

In the 1980s, when Stella Kourembanas, MD, began her career in neonatology, she cared for newborns with pulmonary ...

Yet, fresh analyses across lab and computer-based models revealed that glycogen—a form of simple sugar—acts as an 'oncogenic ...

The US-based team warned that one component of food acts as a 'giant lollipop' for lung cancer's 'sweet tooth' ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion ...

Two years later, his failing heart was worsening. Fluid was building up in his body. "I was sleeping all the time," he said. ...