News tagged with arteries veins

How to... improve circulation

If blood doesn't move well through your veins and arteries, your tissues and organs aren't getting enough oxygen and nutrients. Here are tips for avoiding heart disease and other major health problems that can result:

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 26, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Breakthrough in 3-D Brain Mapping Enables Removal of Fist-Sized Tumor

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technology involving the fusion of four different types of images into a 3-D map of a patient's brain has helped University of Cincinnati (UC) specialists successfully remove a fist-sized ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Diabetics get blood vessels made from donor cells

Three dialysis patients have received the world's first blood vessels grown in a lab from donated skin cells. It's a key step toward creating a supply of ready-to-use arteries and veins that could be used ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The AlloSphere offers an interactive experience of nano-sized worlds

What would it be like to dive into the veins and arteries of the human body or weave through the layers of the brain? With the AlloSphere, a 33-foot diameter sphere built inside of a three-story echo-free ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Marine moves fingers after rare hand transplant

(AP) -- Surgeons have transplanted a hand onto a Marine who was hurt in a training accident, and he has some movement in his fingers, according to the hospital where the operation occurred.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0