Similar to testing a car, a team of researchers at UBC Okanagan has been test-driving a number of mechanical heart valves (MHV)—and the one designed in their own lab appears to outperform the others.

People who work out at the same time every day could improve their cardiovascular and lung health as they age, a recent study ...

We investigated post-transplantation survival and transplantation-specific morbidity after heart–lung transplantation (HLTx) or lung transplantation (LTx) in a cohort of Nordic patients with ES to aid ...

newcastle.ac.uk Background: Aberrant epithelial repair is a key event in the airway remodelling which characterises obliterative bronchiolitis (OB) in the transplanted lung. The potential ...

A new study suggests that methylene blue—a medication already approved for several clinical uses—may protect the lungs from ...

Tissue engineering approaches may improve survival and functional benefits from human embryonic stem cell–derived cardiomyocyte transplantation, thereby potentially preventing dilative remodeling and ...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is defined as a mean pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) ≥25 mm Hg measured by right heart catheterization. However, the upper limit of a normal mean PAP is 20 mm Hg. There ...

The human heart, an extraordinary testament to resilience, beats tirelessly, circulating life-sustaining blood 100,000 times daily. Yet, this very organ is under siege. Cardiovascular diseases ...

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Social media made me feel terrible: [When I was using it,] I felt less human and more angry ... They’re still young, and it breaks my heart to think about them wondering where the adults ...

“We had to take a huge amount of source material and put it into animation. We had to reduce ... the theme in this work was not 'What is a human and what is a robot?'” Ozaki began, detailing ...

It’s the subject of a growing body of research that cites a constellation of characteristics: big hearts, immense lung capacity ... percent for the typical human heart. Secretariat, the ...