Homeschooling parents find creative ways to fulfill dissection requirements for biology classes, including ordering supplies ...

Thank you, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon, for your efforts toward education reform, including parental ...

New insights into spontaneous coronary artery dissection—a devastating cause of heart attacks in young, healthy patients—were ...

Figure 1: Aortic dissection is caused by bleeding within the aortic wall. The first 2 weeks after the onset of an aortic dissection is considered the acute stage, in which patients are highly ...

Sentinel-lymph-node biopsy is associated with increased melanoma-specific survival (i.e., survival until death from melanoma) among patients with node-positive intermediate-thickness melanomas (1.2 to ...

If you need cardiac surgery in the future, aortic dissection in particular, reach for the moon. Or at least try to schedule your surgery around its cycle. A new study found that acute aortic ...

An aortic aneurysm occurs when a weak aortic wall stretches, causing it to bulge. An aortic dissection occurs when there’s a tear in the aortic wall, which can be fatal if not treated immediately. The ...

When Earlie Smith, then 39, woke on October 15, 2023, she felt intense heartburn. She ate something and took an over-the-counter heartburn medication, but the sensation never dissipated. Soon, the ...

Students at a New Jersey high school can virtually dissect the human body, thanks to the purchase of cutting edge technology that is typically available only to medical students. Cadaver dissection is ...

The aorta is the main artery of the human body. Its large structure is key to maintaining the vital function of pumping oxygenated blood around the whole body. Aortic ...