A young woman who underwent major life-saving surgery to remove cancerous lumps says she was first told to meditate after ...

During medical school, I learned the characteristic triad that makes up the most common presentation of coronary artery disease: exercise-induced chest pain that is felt under the breastbone and ...

While chest pain is the most common symptom of a heart ... caused by inflammation of the cartilage that connects your breastbone (sternum) to your ribs. The pain can closely mimic a heart attack ...

Psoriatic arthritis can cause a range of symptoms, from your head down to your toes. One of the more alarming may be pain in ...

If you have fibromyalgia (FMS), chest pain may be one of your symptoms. A condition called costochondritis, which causes pain around the breastbone and rib cage, could be to blame. It is caused by ...

Inflammation of the cartilage (called costochondritis) that connects the ribs to the breastbone is a common cause of chest pain, as are rib fractures. Rib deformities occur in some babies during ...

exercise-induced chest pain that is felt under the breastbone and relieved promptly by rest. I also learned about denial in illness — the tendency to disregard ominous symptoms. When challenged ...