Part of the challenge lies with identifying otherwise healthy individuals — especially women — who lack standard modifiable ...

An ongoing study spotlights the link between calcium deposits in the breast arteries and life-threatening heart risks.

Routine mammograms are best known as a front-line tool for detecting breast cancer. But new research suggests the same X-ray ...

If you’ve been focusing all your health anxiety on breast cancer screenings, there’s something else you need to add to your radar. A new study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital has unveiled a ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Heart disease has long been the leading killer ...

When Rebecca Chen felt a slight discomfort in her chest during her morning yoga class, she dismissed it as heartburn. At 42, physically active and with no family history of heart disease, she never ...

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In most heart attacks, the cause is clogged arteries. Well, at least in men. For women, the situation is different. In a little more than half of the time, heart attacks in women are prompted by other ...

About two years ago, Kristina Auwarter was leaning over to pick up her son from his crib when she felt a spot of pain bloom in her chest. Initially, nothing about it raised her suspicion; she’d just ...

High cholesterol and age are two significant risk factors for heart disease, which is the leading cause of death in the ...