By Christine Traxler, MD An 18 year-long prospective study on the length of television watching and the risk of pulmonary embolism revealed a positive correlation between the length of time a person watches television per day and the risk...
By Christine Traxler, MD It was once thought among doctors that patients with pulmonary hypertension, many of whom can’t even walk a short distance without being short of breath, shouldn’t exercise. Pulmonary hypertension is a disease that leads to high blood pressure...
Dr. Wendy Chung explains a graphic depicting a cross section of a potassium channel in a smooth muscle cell of the pulmonary artery. A study by Dr. Chung has identified six new mutations in a gene called KCNK3 that...