A new technique to repair damaged blood vessels promises to bring new hope to diabetics 1. Many diabetes patients end up with damaged blood vessels in their limbs leading to traumatic limb amputations ...

Research led by scientists at St George's, University of London has discovered 119 areas in the genome that help to determine the size and shape of blood vessels at the back of the eye, and that an ...

Thrombectomy and embolectomy are procedures used to treat two different types of blood clots from blood vessels. A thrombectomy is surgery to remove a stationary blood clot from one of your arteries ...

Scientists investigating the causes of lymphoedema have made a major discovery, revealing that lymphatic vessels can produce red and white blood cells. Until now, it was believed that blood cells ...

A technology most often used for medical imaging is being repurposed as a new tool for restoring blood flow in tissue damaged from disease, injury, and reconstructive surgery. Biomedical engineers at ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have uncovered how a single protein triggers two opposite responses in blood vessels—one inflammatory and one protective. This protein, a ...

The longer someone lives with type 2 diabetes, the higher their cardiovascular risk – and red blood cells may be part of why In long-standing diabetes, red blood cells can disrupt the lining of blood ...