WPI researcher Kristen Billiar leads part of multicenter project funded by American Heart Association to determine causes of ...

Kristen Billiar, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, will try to determine what turns those risk factors into disease as part of a $15 million multi-center initiative that is ...

Existing clot busters have one major drawback: They prevent heart attack by indiscriminately blocking platelet function, thereby increasing the risk of uncontrolled bleeding. Now, a research team led ...

A newly discovered pathway between the heart and brain may explain why healthy people faint. The pathway appears to carry signals from the heart's lower pumping chambers to an area of the brainstem ...

A sudden restriction of blood flow to the brain. That's how scientists have traditionally explained why people faint. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...