Aggressive global risk-factor management can stop -- or even regress -- atherosclerosis in patients without necessarily reducing low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol to levels as low as the ...

Screening and diagnostic testing can affect the incidence of certain cancers and result in "self-fulfilling" risk factors associated with those cancers, according to a new essay by two major figures ...

The Oncology Grand Rounds series is designed to place original reports published in the Journal into clinical context. A case presentation is followed by a description of diagnostic and management ...

Traditional risk factors contribute most to young-onset CIS without patent foramen ovale; nontraditional risk factors more important in CIS with PFO. (HealthDay News) — Traditional risk factors ...

Among adults ages 18-49 (median age of 41 years) who were born with a hole in the upper chambers of their heart known as patent foramen ovale (PFO), strokes of unknown cause were more strongly ...

When the actor Olivia Munn credited a diagnostic tool many had never heard of for catching her breast cancer, thousands turned to breast cancer risk assessment websites to see what they were about.

Individuals exposed to adverse neighborhood social factors in early adulthood demonstrated a higher risk of developing ...