The bubbles rubbed and bounded like tiny balloons against his cheeks and eyes as they took their upward flight.

Should osteoporosis get severe enough to collapse a vertebra, doctors have a new way to make repairs: Two tiny balloons are inserted into the bone through surgical tubes.

Close to one million Americans a year receive stent implants after angioplasty to create pathways through severe blockages in coronary arteries by inflating tiny balloons in them.