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Left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease can lead to what's known as a "widowmaker" heart attack, so-called because of the ...
I am a 64-year-old man who has been having periodic shortness of breath for the past six months or so. This happens mostly upon exertion but sometimes ...
I am a 64-year-old man who has been having periodic shortness of breath for the past six months or so. This happens mostly upon exertion but sometimes occurs when I stand up. I do have a family ...
Aspirin has recently been questioned as a preventive for heart attacks, even though we have been using it for decades. Statin ...
Test that can reveal your risk of getting motor neurone disease Thousands of people with the most dangerous type of heart ...
A new ESC Clinical Consensus Statement published in the European Heart Journal discusses the key role of vaccination in ...
Treat it like tobacco: avoid criminalizing it, discourage its use, and protect bystanders, says editorial. Cannabis use is ...
Counties with lower densities of primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and cardiovascular specialists consistently ...
The health ministry has initiated plans to reduce the price of stents, increasing the number of functional catheterisation labs (cath labs), and establishing Coronary Care Units (CCUs) in several hosp ...
The coronary calcium score may help doctors identify which patients truly benefit from statins—and who might not need them at ...
On June 6, Mayor Yemi Mobolade shared a post about a recent hospital stay for double pneumonia, and detailed that during his ...
With CT scans picking up more cases of sclerosing mesenteritis, be prepared to diagnose this poorly understood autoimmune ...