Claire Gillespie

The heart is an incredibly hardworking organ, serving the entire body by pumping almost 1.5 gallons of oxygen- and nutrient-rich blood each day to tissues and other organs—enough to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool in less than a year. Over a 70-year l... See more

A diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease—whether yours or your loved one’s—naturally sparks a flurry of questions, including how this neurological disorder might affect daily life. While the intensity and progression of symptoms varies from person to person, th... See more

If you’ve been thinking about putting yourself forward for a clinical trial to help advance research into IgA nephropathy (IgAN), there’s never been a better time to do it. There are currently 70 IgAN-related clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov (... See more

Anticoagulants and antiplatelets are two common types of medications known as blood thinners. While they don’t literally make your blood thinner, they do help to prevent dangerous blood clots from forming, which reduces the risk for stroke, heart attack, ... See more

It’s estimated that as many as one in 500 people in the United States have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a heart disease where the heart muscle thickens (that’s the hypertrophy part) and reduces the amount of blood pumped through the body with each h... See more