Your circulatory system contains three blood vessel types: arteries, veins, and capillaries. Arteries carry blood from the heart, unlike veins, which carry blood to the heart. According to the ...

Human bodies are designed to move in order to circulate blood and nutrients to every cell. Staying active and on the move is crucial to our health for a lot of reasons. But it's especially important ...

Your eyes—retinal blood vessels and retinal imaging—may help predict heart disease, according to a new study. Here, doctors ...

Every day, your heart pumps about 10 pints of blood 60,000 miles around your body through your circulatory system. That system is made up of blood vessels, the tubes that carry blood throughout your ...

Microrobots may become an effective tool in breaking down the dangerous blood vessel blockages that cause strokes. But these ...

The calf muscles play a vital role in blood circulation. They are often called the body's second heart. Strong calf muscles ...

As the thing which links every organ in our bodies together, through the circulatory system, blood vessels are pretty darn important. Now a team of researchers has managed to grow picture-perfect ...

Organ transplantation involves the transplantation of organs from donors as a means to treat disease or injury, but there is a shortage of organs available for donation compared to the demand for ...

Surgeons in the United States perform nearly 600,000 coronary artery stent procedures and bypass surgeries every year.

Engineers report on how a computational technique they developed can quickly produce designs for 3D printing carbon-fiber composite materials with an internal vasculature optimized for active-cooling.