News tagged with major arteries

New heart drugs don't mean old ones should be discarded, researchers say

In performing procedures to open narrowed coronary arteries, cardiologists use powerful drugs to prevent clotting and make the blood thinner — but not so thin that it causes major bleeding. But one of the old anti-clotting ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

Mar 09, 2011 | not rated yet | 0

Dendritic cells as a new player in arteries and heart valves

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1973, Ralph M. Steinman launched a new scientific discipline when he published his discovery of the dendritic cell, an odd-shaped player in the immune system. Since then, dendritic cells have proved to ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

Feb 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0