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.

With each heartbeat, blood courses through your body. Some traverse arteries from the lungs back to the heart, and some navigate through capillaries in the thinnest layers of your eyelid, almost ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have discovered that the gut's rhythmic muscle movements could help ...

Your kidneys are like filters. Your brain is like a computer. Your digestive system is like a tube. Your hands are controlled a bit like a marionette. These comparisons exist in part because doctors ...

Our blood consists of many cell types that develop through different stages from a precursor type -- the blood stem cell. An international research team has now investigated the developmental pathways ...

The answer came in 2023, thanks in part to the family of a patient who had a complete loss of brain function. After learning ...

Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge ...