With each heartbeat, blood courses through your body. Some traverse arteries from the lungs back to the heart, and some navigate through capillaries in the thinnest layers of your eyelid, almost ...

When the medical world was agog over the discovery that blood circulates through the body, imaginative surgeons tried to transfuse sheep’s blood into human patients weakened by too generous ...

Ochsner Health and STEM NOLA are teaming up to present a hands-on learning experience for kids focused on the heart and circulatory system. The STEM Saturday event will give young participants a ...

For decades, rodent experiments with parabiosis, which involves surgically joining circulatory systems, have shown that old animals can benefit from sharing blood with much younger animals. Credit: ...

Memory T cells are a special type of white blood cell that "remember" past infections and vaccines, helping our bodies to ...

Mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH) is a blood test used to measure the average amount of hemoglobin in your red blood cells. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen to tissues ...