Babies born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome typically require multiple surgeries in the first few years of life, but ...

The vagus nerve is so named because it “wanders” like a vagabond, sending out sensory fibers from your brainstem to your ...

Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating ...

Thanks to medical advancements, young patients with heart conditions are living longer, healthier lives -but this success also brings new challenges. Community ...

CHICAGO - This Valentine’s Day, we heard from a woman who recently underwent a rare dual organ transplant. Doctors gave Laura Valentine a new heart and liver. Valentine, 35, was born with only half a ...

At the start of the new year, I attended a field trip with my Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School nursing class to ...

Children's Hospital Los Angeles has opened its new Cardiac Imaging Suite, a 6,650-square-foot facility that will improve ...

The right atrium is one of the heart's upper chambers that plays a role in blood circulation. It collects deoxygenated blood and directs it on a pathway to get oxygen from the lungs. Problems with the ...

Anatomy is the field of biology that studies the structure of living things. Anatomy focuses on the composition, structure and location of the parts of organisms tissues, organs and systems ...

Lung biopsy is a relatively frequently performed procedure with considerable benefit for patient management but it may, on rare occasions, result in the death of the patient. It is a multidisciplinary ...

At present, the auto-segmentation of OARs with relatively large volume such as lung and heart etc. outperforms the organs with small volume such as esophagus. The average Dice similarity coefficient ...

Our editors also may be in touch with follow-up questions. An elevated heart rate as a result of physical activity, such as going for a run, is common, but what should your heart rate look like at ...