Category: Heart disease

For those of you who, like me, tend to fret over small (and big) things, it's probably a good idea to learn to relax. Yet …

Joe Matthews, or "English Joe" as he likes to be known, has one of those inspirational medical stories. A heart transplant patient at Stanford Hospital …

"The U.S. health care system, although it's the costliest in the world, doesn't even deliver the goods when it comes to delivering health." That's the …

Bioengineers at Duke University have developed a living patch that one day could be implanted into patients with heart disease to repair damaged tissue. During …

Heart defects run in my family. I lost two infant sisters to hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a congenital defect in which the left side of …

Check out this gorgeous image - a colorized scanning electron micrograph - of a blood clot. Red blood cells are shown in red; leukocytes are …

Having hailed from Wisconsin, I'm a pretty big football fan. (I don't exactly bleed green-and-gold, but let's just say it runs in the Cheese State-family …

Considering that my morning commute (from San Francisco to Palo Alto) took 20 minutes longer than normal today, news about a study linking traffic and …