Many cancer survivors struggle with muscle weakness, which can be so profound that they may have difficulties walking up a couple of flights of stairs or going shopping for groceries on their own.

Researchers recently discovered preserved blood vessels inside one of Scotty’s rib bones, a rare find that could offer new insights into how dinosaurs healed from injuries. They describe the ...

This "tsunami in the body" is one way a blast can injure blood vessels that supply oxygen and nutrients to structures deep in the brain, says Dr. Ibolja Cernak, an expert on blast injuries at ...

It refers to the build-up of plaque in blood vessels. Arteriosclerosis refers to the loss of flexibility and hardening of the arteries that carry blood away from your heart.

Each year, about 185,000 people in the United States undergo amputation. Nearly half of those are due to injured blood vessels cutting off circulation to a limb. Surgeons can transplant an intact ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (KFSN) -- Heart disease can be caused by a narrowing of the arteries carrying blood to the heart. Patients with peripheral artery disease, or PAD, have arterial blockages in the legs.

We also found that tumors release a protein called Activin-A, which acts on blood vessels to cause the leakiness and, ultimately, loss of blood vessels in the muscle. When we used a gene therapy ...