SAVVY SENIOR: Cholesterol numbers have been the main way to estimate heart disease risk for years. But there’s another tool ...

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 ...

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 ...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the Cleveland Clinic have built an artificial intelligence ...

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 ...

Heart scans may reveal early heart changes linked to higher future risk of breast and colorectal cancer, years before ...

NEW YORK-- It is American Heart Month and many are raising awareness about a killer in this country: heart disease. Technological advances are making it easier to spot heart conditions before they ...

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, ...

Dear Savvy Senior,I just turned 58, and heart disease runs in my family. My cholesterol has been creeping up, and I’ve been ...