Get to know the functions of your heart, blood vessels, and blood itself and how they work together to maintain your health.

Your heart pumps blood from your head to your toes, provides cells with fresh oxygen, and removes waste products. Located in ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the prize for research showing how the body regulates its ...

Using magnetic cameras, researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have examined blood flow in an artificial heart in real time. The results make it possible to design the heart in a way to reduce ...

A process of surgically joining the circulatory systems of a young and old mouse slows the aging process at the cellular level and lengthens the lifespan of the older animal by up to 10%. A process of ...

A study of human placentas suggests that urban air pollution may push the organ's resident immune cells into an inflammatory state.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PercAssist, Inc., a medical device company developing innovative technology for extravascular / extracardiac Mechanical Circulatory Support to provide hemodynamic ...