Laser angioplasty is an invasive procedure that uses laser energy to remove plaque from arteries, offering an alternative to ...

WASHINGTON – A cholesterol-lowering drug has for the first time been shown to shrink blockages that cause most heart attacks, indicating such pills may offer the first non-surgical way to start to ...

A blocked coronary artery causing an acute heart attack must be opened immediately with a stent procedure. However, if other ...

Cold weather can be tough on your heart. Here are 5 simple and natural ways to keep your arteries clear, boost heart health, ...

The boffins at Chonnam National University have created a microscopic robot to be used in medical procedures to clear blocked arteries. The minuscule robot has six legs and walks in the same manner as ...

Micro- and nano-scopic sized pieces of plastic people use everyday can eventually find its way into the most unlikely of places, even in the plaque of clogged arteries of cardiac patients, a recent ...

Opening all blocked arteries with stents in patients with a heart attack, known as complete revascularization, reduces the ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas basketball coach Bill Self had two stents inserted into his heart to treat blocked arteries Thursday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after he “felt unwell and experienced ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Doctors have cut into Theodore Dippy's heart twice to clear clogged arteries. Other times, they swept aside blockages with tiny balloons and once left a metal stent inside an artery to ...