February was Heart Month, and this is the last column in a series about the major risk factors for heart attacks. Heart ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In individuals without symptoms who have thickened walls of the carotid arteries, two major arteries located on each side of the neck that provide blood and oxygen to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heart doctor What's the first thing you think of when you hear "plaque"? If it's related to dental health, you're probably not ...

Soft and hard plaque are two different forms of fatty build-up inside your arteries, and both can quietly damage your heart over many years. The risk of heart attack becomes higher when soft plaque ...

New data presented at ACC 2026 suggests that dulaglutide may be doing something far more dramatic than managing diabetes: it ...

For decades, heart attacks were mainly blamed on cholesterol buildup, poor diet, smoking, or hypertension. But a new study has claimed that oral bacteria too can give you a heart attack. The study by ...

February was heart month, and this is the last column in a series about the major risk factors for heart attacks. Heart attacks are not all about cholesterol—inflammation plays a large role. There are ...

Medical illustration showing how plaque buildup and clot formation can restrict blood flow in arteries. Researchers have developed a luteolin-based nanomedicine that targets and stabilizes these ...

SCAD — strikes without warning and is often mistaken for something else because it usually affects relatively young, healthy women in their 40s and 50s. The symptoms are similar to a heart attack, but ...

ATLANTA -- The concept of using stents to seal off non-flow-limiting vulnerable plaques, before they have a chance to rupture, worked out in the first major trial testing this provocative idea.

Nearly half of adults in the United States have hypertension, or high blood pressure — but many of them, an estimated 11 ...