The aorta, a large blood vessel responsible for transporting oxygenated blood from the heart to the rest of the body, plays a ...

Hypertension, or chronically high blood pressure, is a double whammy for the brain — making it harder for oxygen and nutrients to get into the brain and more difficult for the brain to get rid of ...

Stroke is the leading cause of serious long-term disability and among the top five causes of death in the United States: more ...

In a last-minute move Wednesday, the Trump administration excluded pharmaceuticals from its retaliatory tariffs, giving consumers a break for now.

A heart murmur is a sound often characterized as a "whooshing" or rushing of fluid that can be heard between heartbeats. As ...

More than 1 in 7 adults are estimated to have chronic kidney disease, which is a progressive decrease in kidney function. As many as 9 in 10 of them don’t know they have it.

Many cases of dementia, stroke and late-life depression could be prevented or delayed by managing these 17 risk factors.

Women who have experienced preeclampsia have accelerated accumulation of cardiovascular (CV) risk factors compared with women ...

C, shares how she saved Dr Jacquelyn Lacera’s life from a near-fatal cardiovascular event while aboard a flight from Hawaii.

Overall, we found that women who took oral hormone therapy tended to have lower cholesterol levels, and this effect persisted over many years. For healthy younger women who are within 10 years of ...

“Your blood count is dangerously low,” the doctor said over the phone. “I’m sending an ambulance to take you to the hospital ...

A recent study published in the journal Neurology has found that individuals with blood type A may have a 16 percent higher ...