Routine mammograms are a critical tool for breast cancer screening. However, they may also hold crucial, potentially untapped information about a person's risk for cardiovascular disease, the number ...

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

Opening all blocked arteries with stents in patients with a heart attack, known as complete revascularization, reduces the risk of death from cardiovascular causes, death from any cause and future ...

Journal Editorial Report: The Fed Chief signals rate cuts are coming. As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they ...

A new generation of “theranostic” nanoparticles has been shown to both detect and reduce plaques in the arteries. Nanoparticles absorbed by immune cells in the arteries, where they work to lower ...

Coronary artery calcium scans can offer a more precise estimate of a patient’s chances for major cardiac events. Some cardiologists say it remains underused. By Paula Span A long list of Lynda ...

Your arteries are meant to be flexible tubes that expand and contract with each heartbeat, efficiently delivering oxygen-rich blood throughout your body. However, as we age and face various lifestyle ...

A heart attack can strike without warning, and one of the leading culprits is clogged arteries. This silent condition builds up over time, often without symptoms, until it’s too late. But there’s good ...

A windowed sinc function can implement a low-pass filter, and a two-dimensional convolutional filter can blur or sharpen images. In part 3 of this series, we introduced a low-pass filter based on the ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I was diagnosed with advanced osteoporosis years ago. I started taking vitamin K2 because I read that it helps move calcium from the blood into the bones. Fast forward to last year, my ...

Genetically engineered immune cells could help reduce the clogging of arteries, potentially lowering the risk of heart attack or stroke in people who don’t respond to common treatments. Doctors often ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) includes two primary forms: obstructive CAD (OCAD), caused by plaque buildup in the arteries, and nonobstructive CAD (NOCAD), often due to artery function issues like ...