For the almost 520,000 Americans who will undergo treatment this year, the process leaves little room for a full life. An ...

The cause of the problem was somewhere in the miles of tubing, and if Thomas didn’t want to stop his treatment early ... which are themselves made up of a glomerulus and tubule. First, the glomerulus ...

To some, the data place endolysosomal gridlock at the very heart of AD pathogenesis ... to the cell surface via endosomal tubules. From there, most SORL1 recycles back into endosomes. TNFa converting ...

Treating chronic kidney disease first requires identifying the underlying cause, then trying to slow the progression while also reducing complications that may affect other organs, like the heart ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon with Orlando Health and an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine. Contrary to ...

The new ACC and AHA criteria for cardiac devices emphasize more risk stratification, reflecting advances in the field in ...

A spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD, leads to bleeding inside the artery wall. A survivor shares her symptoms.

A team of physicists has developed a groundbreaking method for detecting congestive heart failure with greater ease and precision than previously thought possible. This multidisciplinary study, ...

Engineered immune cells called CAR-T cells are used in the treatment of cancer. Researchers from Uppsala University have now ...

History was made after a team of surgeons successfully performed a pediatric partial heart transplant in Southern California for the first time. The patient, Ymiliano Hernandez, 12, was born with ...

“This is because the heart's muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, don’t regenerate quickly. During a cardiac arrest, when oxygen supply is cut off, these cells die. Instead of growing ...