With two high-profile NBA stars suffering from blood clots recently, we asked doctors how they happen and if they are occurring more often.

There’s a reason why international chest day is at the beginning of the training week and not the end, and it’s because this muscle takes center stage in the quest for strength. After all ...

Objectives Superb microvascular imaging (SMI) provides a more sensitive assessment of small vessels compared with power and colour Doppler ultrasonography (PDUS and CDUS). We aimed to investigate the ...

The pleura fluid has a slightly sticky quality that helps draw the lungs outward during inhalation rather than slipping around the chest cavity. It creates surface tension that helps maintain the ...

In the United States, more than seven million people seek emergency care for chest pain each year ... especially if accompanied by signs of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). It is not uncommon for both to ...

Primary infection is asymptomatic and patients may remain asymptomatic for years, during which time lung lesions may be discovered incidentally on a chest x-ray. In Europe the average patient is in ...