To diagnose chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), doctors typically use spirometry to measure your lung function. They usually also perform other tests to monitor the damage to your lungs.

Stents and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) treat blocked arteries and coronary artery disease (CAD). Stents are a less invasive option, while CABG is a major surgery. Your healthcare provider ...

The expert, from the US, claims his trick can check on the sufficiency of your arteries and indicate whether there might be a blockage. "Well, not surprisingly, you have to listen to your body." ...

Take something as mundane as an extra blood vessel in our arms, which going by current trends could be commonplace within just a few generations. An artery that temporarily runs down the center of our ...

Elastic arteries contain a high amount of collagen and elastin (more than the amount that comprises muscular arteries). These arteries (which also include the aorta, pulmonary artery, and femoral ...

NEW YORK, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Colonial Pipeline's main U.S. gasoline artery is expected to remain shut through Friday as the company continues to search for the source of a suspected leak in ...

This study identifies Higd1b as a unique and specific gene marker for pulmonary pericytes, enabling the identification of two pericyte subtypes and their contribution to vascular remodeling in hypoxia ...

The clinical course and pathologic findings in three cases of anomalous origin of the right pulmonary artery from the ascending aorta are described. The malformation is characterized by (1) absent ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD), better known as clogged arteries, is the leading cause of death in the United States, according to 2023 research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This type ...