Charles Baxter’s novel charges along so boisterously that it’s easy to forget the author is batting around some of the ...

With heart attacks, every second counts. A new blood test diagnoses them in minutes rather than hours and could be adapted as a tool for first responders and people at home. "Heart attacks require ...

Your GP shines a light in your eyes, orders a blood test and requests some medical imaging. All rely on light to help ...

With heart attacks, every second counts. A new blood test diagnoses them in minutes rather than hours and could be adapted as a tool for first responders and people at home. Heart attacks require ...

You may already know that blood pressure and even your resting heart rate both tend to change with age. But what about the age of your heart itself? According to the British Heart Foundation, it’s ...

The simple medical test is named after American doctor Edgar Van Nuys Allen, who came up with the original version in 1942.

Every day, patients across America crack open envelopes with bad news. Yet another health insurer has decided not to pay for ...

Cardiac CT angiograms take detailed images of the heart and can show dangerous blockages in a person's arteries.

At present, confirmation of heart attack involves electrocardiograms to measure the organ's electrical activity, which takes ...

High cholesterol doesn't present noticeable symptoms and patients usually only discover they have it after a blood test. Here ...

New blood tests screen for colorectal cancer in a much less invasive way than colonoscopy, but deaths will increase if many ...

Ridker, M.D., M.P.H., a study author and the director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. For the study, investigators collected blood samples ...