Spinal cord injury (SCI) remains the most serious complication of repairing descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms, with endovascular ...

When Nate and Marion Weeks got married 35 years ago, little did they know they’d each undergo heart surgery performed by the same doctor 18 years apart.

Strachan’s lust for life is understandable. The 26-year-old was given a new lease of it, after all, and his spirit remains as hardy as the granite on Ailsa Craig. As a teenager, he underwent major ...

It seems like foreshadowing that they met while playing the board game Life. Marietta Barton was 19 years old; Jeff Baxter ...

It seems like foreshadowing that they met while playing the board game Life. Marietta Barton was 19 years old; Jeff Baxter was 21. Despite both growing up ...

Q: My neighbor suffered a ruptured aneurysm that almost killed her. According to her husband, this came out of the blue. What ...

Despite guideline recommendations, the use of bioprosthetic heart valves has surpassed mechanical valves, but data from a large surgical database may lead to a reassessment of that practice.

Growing up with a heart disease, Ashley Pecora never knew what her life was going to look like—until two years ago when she ...

Now, researchers have found the first evidence of changes taking place over the past 20 years in the shape of the inner core. Signs of the core’s deformation appeared in waves from earthquakes ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD Clubbed nails, also known as digital clubbing or Hippocratic fingers, describe a ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — Research in fruit flies has identified specific groups of cholinergic brain cells that are involved in alcohol-induced insomnia. This work could ultimately lead to targeted ...