"If I wasn’t treated sooner, I could have suffered a heart attack and died that day," Sammy Ouatts told Newsweek.

We often think of chest pain as a sign of heart attack, yet chest pain doesn’t automatically mean you have a problem with your heart. There are plenty of other potential culprits—such as heartburn or ...

Acid reflux, medically known as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), occurs when stomach acid flows back into the ...

New Orleans - More than half a million people a year with chest pain are getting an unnecessary or premature procedure to unclog their arteries because drugs are just as effective, suggests a landmark ...

Stress CMR significantly enhances diagnostic accuracy for chest pain without obstructive coronary artery disease, identifying ...

Discover the power of yoga twists in this quick 5-minute yoga routine! Perfect for beginners, these simple yoga poses relieve back pain, boost digestion, and stretch tight shoulders and chest. Learn ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have been having pains and discomfort in my chest area for over a month now. I am a woman and in my early 30s. My doctor says my heart is OK, but I can’t help but wonder. The pain is ...

Iowa City, Iowa – May 09, 2007 - The discomfort caused by esophageal (non-cardiac) chest pain is often severe, driving many patients to emergency rooms and physicians' offices despite the fact that ...

PARIS -- Whether a person had chest pains resolved by angioplasty hinged on the nature, not the severity, of their presenting symptoms, an ORBITA-2 analysis showed. Investigators found two groups more ...

Those patients now should try drugs first, experts say. If that does not help, they can consider angioplasty or bypass surgery, which unlike angioplasty, does save lives, prevent heart attacks and ...

More than half a million people a year with chest pain are getting an unnecessary or premature procedure to unclog their arteries because drugs are just as effective, suggests a landmark study that ...