Replacing a missing brain lipid may calm overactive blood vessels and restore healthy blood flow—opening a new path toward treating dementia.

Dementia has long been framed as a slow, irreversible loss of neurons, but a new line of research is shifting attention to ...

Heart murmur is the medical term for audible blood flow through the heart. There are two main types of heart murmurs: physiologic and pathophysiologic. Flow murmurs are one example of a physiologic ...

Abnormal blood flow in the aorta is linked to inflammation and breakdown of the vessel wall in conditions where the aorta is dilated. The findings can contribute to better diagnosis and open up new ...

A leg bypass surgery may be necessary if fatty deposits have clogged a blood vessel, impeding blood flow through the leg. During this surgery, doctors will create a new pathway for blood to travel. If ...

Being in microgravity can have strange effects on the body – now it has emerged that it can make people’s blood flow backwards. The changes to circulation caused two astronauts to develop small blood ...

A new study suggests that dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain. Researchers found that losing a ...