There is no easy way to unclog an artery once plaque has built up. However, dietary choices, exercise, and avoiding smoking can improve cardiovascular health and stop blockages from worsening.

(NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing the linkup. The sight is ...

In terms of the types of offending vessels, the most common was the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) with 30 cases, followed by the anterior inferior cerebellar artery (AICA) with 25 cases.

We speculate that our patient likely had initial transient occlusion of the right vertebral artery at the origin of the right posterior inferior cerebellar artery, which probably gave rise to the ...

Albany Med. Ann., October, 1911, pp. 585-601. In the present report Dr. Courtney has borrowed freely from this excellent article of Dr. Gordinier and hereby acknowledges his indebtedness to that ...

This manuscript by Guo and Uusisaari describes a series of experiments that employ a novel approach to address long-standing questions on the inferior olive in general ... could be further explored in ...

Spontaneous event properties in IO subnuclei display synchronicity-related modulation. A, example fluorescence imaging traces from a PO (pink) and DAO (cyan) neurons. Top traces display unprocessed DF ...

There are several risk factors for arterial dissection, including history of trauma to cervical spine, history of migraine-type headache, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, cardiac diseases ...

In this study of a cohort of children with prematurity-related brain injury confined to one or both cerebellar hemispheres, we used a quantitative, three-dimensional volumetric MRI technique ...

Specific tumor patterns including encasement of cerebral artery, massive sphenoid invasion bridging the ... Table 4 Logistic regression model predicting surgical complications. New anterior pituitary ...