Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in countries like the United States and Australia. A common form of this ...

High cholesterol can contribute to the build-up of plaque in your arteries, which can increase blood pressure by making it harder for your heart to pump blood through your blood vessels.

Medical illustration showing how plaque buildup and clot formation can restrict blood flow in arteries. Researchers have developed a luteolin-based nanomedicine that targets and stabilizes these ...

Another group of foods to avoid are those high in saturated fats and trans fats. These unhealthy fats can lead to the buildup ...

It can reveal plaque in arteries, offering a more precise estimate of a person’s risk of heart disease. Yet the test remains ...

Alzheimer's disease is marked by the buildup of amyloid plaques in the brain, but most ways of studying these deposits in ...

New CGuard Prime Carotid Stent System from InspireMD has a finer mesh that prevents plaque or clots from flowing into the ...

The FDA recently cleared, for the first time, a blood test for Alzheimer's. This is very exciting news that has made many headlines. I think we have to exercise caution, care, and make sure patients ...

A team of scientists at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) has published new evidence suggesting that the ...

In Alzheimer's, amyloid sticks and forms plaques in the brain, eventually causing brain cells to die, while tau tangles inside the brain’s neurons - both leading to the onset of dementia symptoms. The ...