First-time high school student-athletes must have a state-mandated ECG screening before they can even try out. For fall sports, time is running out.

Researchers are investigating whether blood tests and heart scans can detect hidden heart damage during breast cancer ...

BACKGROUND: Although the prognostic utility of positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial flow reserve (MFR) is well established, emerging data suggest that reduced subendocardial flows also ...

You ordered the blood test. Your doctor didn't. Millions now monitor their own blood levels, but is consumer testing really ...

Normally, your body keeps serum magnesium within a very tight range. However, if you have this medical condition, your ...

A neoplasm is an abnormal growth of cells in the body. It happens when the body’s normal process of making and replacing cells doesn’t work as it should. When a neoplasm forms into an abnormal growth, ...

Over 26% of U.S. adults with a normal BMI met new criteria for clinical obesity proposed by the Lancet commission. About 78% of adults had excess adiposity if defined by using two or three abnormal ...

A new study from Spain has uncovered important clues about what happens inside the heart during one of the deadliest medical emergencies: ventricular fibrillation. The findings could eventually help ...

A new study from Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests a routine heart test—an electrocardiogram (ECG)—may offer ...

Question: My 13-year-old daughter is very tall and faints a lot. Her body is changing, and I have told her that it is nothing ...

Learn why your heart may be beating slowly, and when it is normal and when it is not, prompting immediate check-up. | Health ...