Mike Fackelmann had no reason to think he had heart disease. Although his cholesterol was a touch on the high side, he had never experienced any chest pains and had just passed a stress test with ...

Nearly half of all heart attacks are "silent," which means the person experiences no symptoms at all before the cardiac event, studies have shown. Now a medical technology company aims to catch those ...

Dr Devi Shetty urges Indians to prioritise preventive heart screening, recommending routine checks from age 35 and earlier ...

Combining two types of heart scan techniques could help doctors to detect the deadly heart condition hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) before symptoms and signs on conventional tests appear. Combining ...

"I just turned 58 and heart disease runs in my family. My cholesterol has been creeping up, and I’ve been hearing about a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regular readers of my column know I have been very bullish about the Coronary Calcium Scan, also known as a calcium score test or ...

Sentara Health uses AI platform Cleerly to analyze heart CT scans, cutting invasive testing by 37% and improving patient outcomes.

New York, NY The false hopes and false positives of electron beam computed tomography (EBCT or EBT) coronary artery scanning are just two of the controversial issues explored in a Wall Street Journal ...

Imagine an AI model that can use a heart scan to guess what racial category you're likely to be put in—even when it hasn't been told what race is, or what to look for. It sounds like science fiction, ...

Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death across the world, which makes it important to find new ways to reduce the ...

Lawrence Meckley said a $69 test probably saved his life. Two years ago, Meckley and his wife, Joan, were attending a health education class at Ogden Regional Medical Center. The discussion centered ...