The brain has one of the highest metabolisms of any organ in the body, and that process must yield by-products that need to be removed. In the rest of the body, blood vessels are shadowed by a system ...

A stroke, sometimes called a brain attack, occurs when a blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain is ...

The interaction between the brain and the vascular system could hold the key to lowering disease risk. According to the ...

An aneurysm occurs when the walls of a blood vessel ... of aneurysms. Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans have been found to have lower rates of abdominal aortic aneurysm than white and Native ...

Every year, millions of people around the world suffer ischemic strokes that block blood flow to a region of the brain. Restoring blood flow rapidly is decisive and can save lives. But paradoxically, ...

the main blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to the brain, become narrowed. The narrowing of the carotid arteries is most commonly related to atherosclerosis (a build-up of plaque, which is a ...

“The physical blood-brain ... black rod will spend more time with the new object. But old mice spend a similar amount of time playing with both objects. Aging compromises the lymphatic vessels ...