Carotid artery disease is a common cause of stroke. It occurs when plaque builds up inside the carotid arteries. These are the arteries that supply oxygen-rich blood to the brain. There are two large ...

Back from U.S. Navy service in World War II, a college degree in hand, as well as rejection letters from all 23 of the medical schools to which he had applied, young Julius Jacobson enrolled at the ...

The death of newsman Tim Russert last month from a massive heart attack raised interest in new technologies that may better identify people at risk for life-threatening cardiac events. A test that one ...

In 1665, English scientist Robert Hooke published Micrographia, a book full of drawings depicting views through what was then a novel invention: the microscope. Peering at a slice of cork through a ...

The right coronary artery supplies blood to a part of the heart. To do this effectively, it branches off into smaller arteries, such as the conus artery and the sinoatrial nodal branch. Each branch ...