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.

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 ...

Nov. 27 -- WEDNESDAY, Nov. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Outcomes for surgery to treat carotid (neck) artery blockages are the same for patients who have general or local anesthesia, according to a study by ...

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 ...

Carotid artery stenosis, a narrowing of the carotid arteries in the neck, is usually due to plaque buildup. Standard treatment involves intensive medical management, including aspirin to prevent blood ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people found to have a symptomless buildup of plaque in their neck arteries, intensive medical therapy, not surgery, should be tried first, researchers conclude based ...

Las Vegas mom Carissa Klundt ended up in the ICU and was bedridden for weeks after a chiropractic injury Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard ...

Health professionals warn that the early indicators of heart blockage can easily be overlooked as mere day-to-day issues. Symptoms such as unexpected tiredness, chest tightness, shortness of breath, ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, a leading liberal voice in the United States, had preventive surgery in Boston on Friday to unclog a partially blocked carotid artery in his neck ...