Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UC San Diego maps a heart-brain-immune loop after heart attack, revealing targets that reduced damage in mice. (CREDIT: Augustine ...

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have found that a medication originally developed for glycemic control can reverse serious heart damage—not by controlling blood sugar as originally ...

For many people diagnosed with cancer, treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has dramatically extended lives. Some of these treatments, such as Keytruda and Opdivo, have become familiar ...

Having excess body weight can increase your blood pressure and affect your immune system. Learn what happens to blood ...

New research has uncovered immune changes in cancer patients that could help identify which patients are most at risk of dangerous heart complications from cancer drugs, known as immune checkpoint ...

Cardiovascular diseases are the world’s leading cause of death, with more than four out of five of these deaths caused by heart attacks and strokes. In a heart attack, clogged arteries restrict blood ...

A stroke not only causes acute damage to the brain, but can also have long-term health implications for other organs -- such as the heart. Researchers have worked on the hypothesis that the high rate ...

Arteries can narrow with fatty buildup. Blood struggles to move. Oxygen drops. A heart attack can follow, and it remains the world’s top killer. Researchers at the University of California San Diego ...