Heart health is about more than just the heart itself. It's a two-way street between the heart and the rest of the body. However, many U.S. adults aren't aware of the connection between organs.

The human body has 78 organs, with the brain, heart, kidneys, liver, and lungs considered vital for survival. The article ...

A new ultrasound-based imaging tech has been developed to map the organ blood flow in four dimensions (3D + time) — a level ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Increase awareness of the basic standards of early care and education. Recognize and support early care and education programs providing care above and beyond those standards; and Educate the ...

The science is unsettled, but researchers say there is cause for concern. Tiny plastic particles like these—called microplastics—are added to some exfoliating skincare gels and can get into the ...

2 Congenital Heart Disease Research Group, Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK In the UK, approximately 12 children die annually while on the heart ...

You have less than a week to prepare for the new tolling system on State Route 167 (SR 167). It’s the first change in tolling on the corridor in 17 years. It’s been the honor system since the HOT lane ...

Except for one key aspect, the setup is a familiar one in medicine: An expert diagnostician presents a particularly challenging case to a roomful of colleagues, carefully walking them through the ...

Advances in procurement techniques have enabled use of hearts obtained via donation after circulatory death (DCD), expanding the donor pool; however, the impact of DCD heart transplant on outcomes in ...

In a groundbreaking first for Canada, surgeons at Toronto’s University Health Network (UHN) have successfully completed a heart transplant using a donor whose heart had stopped beating, a technique ...

In another Canadian first, a multidisciplinary team from UHN's Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and Ajmera Transplant Centre transplanted a heart which had stopped beating before donation. TORONTO, Oct. 8, ...