Fitbits are great for tracking workouts and heart rate, but can they also check your blood pressure? It’s a common question, and honestly, figuring out the difference between heart rate and blood ...

Over time, however, high blood pressure can quietly damage the body. It puts extra strain on the heart and blood vessels and ...

Manish Doshi’s company developed MagicTouch, the world's first sirolimus-coated balloon, which offers an implant-free ...

Cold weather doesn’t just change the landscape outside—it changes what’s happening inside the body too, especially the heart. For men over 55, winter conditions can quietly turn a routine cardiac ...

Blood vessels twist, branch, narrow, and balloon in ways that dramatically affect how blood flows — but most lab models have long treated them like straight pipes. Researchers at Texas A&M have now ...

Blood flows around the body through a complex network of vessels, which must constantly adapt to changing needs. The balance between growing new vessels and stabilizing existing vessels, so they ...

Blood vessels are far more complex than the straight channels traditionally recreated in laboratory models, and that simplification has limited how scientists study vascular disease. Researchers at ...

Heart disease is a leading cause of heart attacks, and current bypass grafts often fail to fully regenerate healthy blood vessels. Using a rapid 3D-printing process called MµCLIP, researchers created ...

Cayenne pepper may help blood vessels relax and improve blood flow. It can reduce inflammation, which might lower blood pressure. Cayenne pepper can make food taste better without adding more salt.

Researchers from the University of Twente and Radboud Medical Center have developed tiny 3D-printed magnetic microrobots capable of navigating intricate blood vessels to break up and dissolve ...

If you’re logging serious gym time, you might assume those morning runs or spin classes protect you from the damage of sitting all day at work. New research says: not so fast. Scientists found that ...