A 90-second chest scan could be a game-changer for triaging patients who present to the emergency department with undiagnosed chest pain, according to research out of Detroit.

When the cardiac and neurovascular catheterization lab at Riverside University Health System Medical Center (RUHS-MC) treated its first patient last February, the opening represented many things to many people.

Patients in Massachusetts may soon be receiving “farmacy” prescriptions in lieu of traditional pharmacy scripts.

A large-scale study published in the Journal of Hypertension Jan. 20 suggests the calcium channel blocker amlodipine can lower hypertensive patients’ BP while simultaneously minimizing their long-term risk of developing gout.

In just eight years, the world’s first completely robotic “hybrid” heart will be ready for transplant, according to the Daily Mail.

The Mediterranean diet has been eclipsed as the U.S. News & World Report’s best-ranked heart-healthy diet for the first time in a decade, nudged out of the top spot by the popular Ornish diet.

Repeat revascularization isn’t a rare occurrence after PCI or CABG, according to a study of patients with left main coronary artery disease—but it can raise a person’s risk of cardiovascular death by as much as four times.

This common gesture is meant to signal joy at the end of treatment, but it's producing the opposite effect for some oncology patients, according to a recent survey.