Most people have right-dominant hearts—which to a doctor or a researcher means they have an artery that extends from the ...

Article continues below Space is a pretty hostile environment for the human body, meaning this prolonged ... According to the Canadian Space Agency, arteries can thicken and stiffen in space.

Current treatments for heart disease mainly focus on managing risk—controlling blood sugar, lowering cholesterol, or reducing ...

Just as household plumbing delivers fresh water and removes waste, your body’s vascular system continuously supplies ...

He is the first astronaut to participate in a study examining how exercising with limited gym equipment can affect the human body. While the results have yet to be published, it is information ...

The first transplant of a pig's liver into a human recipient has been carried out by scientists in China, according to a new ...

After Scott Kelly spent a year on the International Space Station, the astronaut returned to Earth in 2016 shorter, more nearsighted, lighter and with new symptoms of heart disease that his ...

Chinese scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human recipient, in a world first. Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an used a genetically modified ...

In a recent, cross-institutional study partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers report that healthy human airways ... airways and trigger the body's inflammatory and ...