Heart attack care is entering a phase where machines do not just assist doctors, they anticipate the next move. A new ...

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans experience what medical professionals call “silent” heart attacks—cardiac events so subtle that victims often dismiss them as minor discomfort or stress.

The problem with the “Hollywood heart attack” commonly depicted on big and small screens is that it’s misleading and doesn’t necessarily reflect real life. Yet, many people think it does. It’s ...

Heart attacks don’t typically strike without warning. While movies and television often portray cardiac events as sudden, dramatic collapses, the reality is far more nuanced. The human body frequently ...

They aren’t all sudden or intense, experts says. By Jancee Dunn I had a relative who experienced chest pain one afternoon. He brushed it off, and said that he’d sleep on it and that if he still felt ...

One night, Lindsay Shanks sat up from bed and felt a sharp pain. “It felt like someone stabbed me right between my shoulder blades,” said Shanks, who was 37 at the time. “My hands started tingling, ...