I’m a 76-year-old Caucasian male who’s in excellent health. (Or so I thought.) Recently, my cardiologist suggested a coronary ...

Eosinophils are white blood cells that play a key role in how the immune system responds to infections, allergies, and some serious illnesses. High levels usually mean the body is reacting to ...

A new Florida law now requires many high school student-athletes to receive a one-time electrocardiogram (ECG) heart ...

Researchers say a new AI-powered blood test could identify heart disease risk up to 15 years before symptoms appear.

A blood test may predict if apparently healthy older adults are likely to develop Alzheimer’s symptoms in the next five or 10 ...

Share on Pinterest To protect against dementia, keep the heart healthy, a new study suggests. Image credit: Iuliia Burmistrova/Getty Images Over the last few years, research has shown a potential link ...

A simple blood test for lipoprotein(a), or LP(a), could help identify a major hidden risk for heart attacks and strokes, but many people remain unaware of it, and routine screenings are not yet ...

According to a cardiologist, a simple measurement with a measuring tape can indicate whether there is reason to have your risk of heart disease assessed more closely.

A routine heart test may be hiding a warning sign that doctors have missed for years. That is the big takeaway from new UC Berkeley research published in Nature. Researchers trained an artificial ...

There are many little health checks people can do at home ― from checking your pulse to breast self-exams. But one that might be less familiar is the thumb test. It's a relatively simple maneuver, but ...

Problem is, just because you drop $600 on a new driver doesn’t mean you know how to actually use the darn thing, but, nonetheless, the technology is so advanced these days that it often makes a ...