Learn How the Heart Works. Your heart is an amazing organ. It continuously pumps oxygen and nutrient-rich blood throughout your body to sustain life. This fist-sized powerhouse beats (expands and ...

A widowmaker heart attack happens when a key blood vessel -- the left anterior descending artery -- is blocked. The LAD provides about 50% of the blood to your heart. This type of heart attack has ...

How does lupus affect the heart, lungs, and blood? Your heart, blood vessels, and lungs work together to circulate blood throughout your body. Lupus can affect each of these body parts in different ...

The UCLA advance opens the door to growing other vascularized organ models, including intestines and colons, providing ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD A heart attack and stroke are both serious health conditions that occur when there's a blockage in the arteries (blood vessels). This blockage causes a ...

“They don’t really make branched vessels with passageways,” Abilez said. In the recently published study, the team set out to optimize a chemical recipe to grow heart organoids that could reliably ...

A stent is a mesh tube placed in a blood vessel. It’s used to widen your vessel and increase blood flow. Stents are commonly used in the arteries of the heart, also known as the coronary ...