Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your arteries play an important role in your cardiovascular health, transporting blood from the heart to all of the body’s cells.

In this day and age, with so much information available online, it is important to keep yourself educated on how you can stay in the best of your health. If you are looking for ways to enhance your ...

Carotid angioplasty and stenting can help open up blocked carotid arteries. It’s often used to help prevent strokes, and your doctor might recommend it if you have a blocked artery. If you’re feeling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our lives are filled with plastic, in everything from packaging to textiles. New research suggests “micronanoplastics” might be ...

A small study found that fatty buildup in the blood vessels of the neck (carotid arteries) may contain 50 times or more micronanoplastics — minuscule bits of plastic — compared to arteries free of ...

Using stents to open clogged arteries in the neck is as safe and effective as surgery. In the first such study to draw that conclusion, U.S. and Canadian researchers found a stroke, heart attack or ...

People with plaque in the blood vessels of their neck have a higher amount of tiny plastic particles in those vessels compared to people with healthy arteries. This increase was significantly higher ...

Blocked arteries in the heart are a serious health problem that affects millions of people around the world. Doctors call ...

A heart attack can strike without warning, and one of the leading culprits is clogged arteries. This silent condition builds up over time, often without symptoms, until it’s too late. But there’s good ...

Co announces the FDA approval to market its Precise RX Nitinol Self-Expanding Stent and Angioguard RX Emboli Capture Guidewire System to treat clogged neck arteries. Approval of the Cordis carotid ...

In most heart attacks, the cause is clogged arteries. Well, at least in men. For women, the situation is different. In a little more than half of the time, heart attacks in women are prompted by other ...