Most adults know the drill before an annual physical: routine blood work, a few numbers to scan, and hope nothing jumps out. These tests are meant to catch serious illness early. But when it comes to ...

Diabetes is associated with serious cardiovascular diseases like atherosclerosis (the plaque buildup in the arteries), heart attack, cardiomyopathy, and heart failure. Although the mechanism by which ...

Heart biopsy tissue from a patient with COVID-19. New technologies can image the cellular landscape of heart tissue in detail. Heart cell boundaries are stained green, the cell nuclei in blue. A group ...

Rheumatic fever (RF) is a fairly rare inflammatory condition in developed countries that can develop as a complication of untreated strep throat caused by group A streptococcal infections. It ...

In the United Sates, heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups. Not only that but also the number of heart-disease related deaths began ...

Why do our ankles swell when they’re sprained or does our skin turn red — or inflamed — when it’s scraped? That quick response is caused by inflammation — and it can save your life. At its core, ...

Noxious air quality impacts everyone. But some people are more vulnerable to the health impacts of air pollution than others. One group is people with heart disease. Breathing in tiny, microscopic air ...

Myocarditis has become a flashpoint in debates about COVID vaccines; however, new research suggests this rare heart inflammation is a window into how powerful immune technologies sometimes misfire in ...