How to Check Your Blood Pressure at Home
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5 Things Adults Born with Heart Defects Need to Know
Childhood treatment for a heart defect doesn’t mean you are in the clear as an adult. Instead, a specialist probably needs to assess your ticker’s health.
10 Heart Tests Your Doctor Might Order, and What They Mean
Heart disease patients and those suspected of having heart disease often face a battery of tests. Find out what you should expect if one of these noninvasive heart tests is in your future.
New Protein Target Could Lead to Breakthrough in Kidney Injury Prevention
Study suggests a protein called suPAR could be targeted to prevent dreaded kidney complications in patients undergoing common medical procedures.
Young Mom’s Yearlong Search for Relief Ends at Michigan Medicine
Some patients keep a hospital wristband as a memento of their experience. Heather Edds kept her rib, which sits in a jar in her home.
To Remember Her Surgery, a Young Mom's Unique Keepsake
Some patients keep a hospital wristband as a memento of their experience. Heather Edds kept her rib, which sits in a jar in her home.
A Story of Faith: The Pregnant Mother Who Had Cancer, Heart Failure and Two Strokes in One Year
A patient reflects on a long and unexpected medical journey with little chance of survival, and how she reclaimed life.
New insights into the effect of aging on cardiovascular disease
New basic science research finds reason to link biological aging to the development of narrowed, hardened arteries, independent of other risk factors like high cholesterol.
Extensive Vascular Surgery Helps Spare Cancer Patient’s Leg
A rare type of cancer required a team of vascular, orthopaedic and plastic surgeons to help one man get back to riding the open roads.
