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.

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

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

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 ...

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

“I’m sorry,” she told guests at a Hard Hats with Heart ... normal stress test, which Brian passed with flying colors, Brian wanted an angiogram, an X-ray that examines the blood vessels ...

Hypertension is a very common condition, affecting about half of all adults in the U.S. But it doesn’t always have symptoms, ...