Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regular readers of my column know I have been very bullish about the Coronary Calcium Scan, also known as a calcium score test or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We are blessed to live in a county with the world’s greatest and most advanced healthcare system. Not only that, we often don’t ...

My brother returned from a calcium scan of his heart a few years ago with the happy news that his coronary arteries were free of hardened plaque that could suggest serious underlying heart disease.

Cardiac calcium scoring is a convenient, non-invasive way to detect a person’s risk for developing coronary artery disease and identifying if a person is at greater risk for cardiac events such as a ...

LOS ANGELES (EMBARGOED UNTIL 4 PM EST, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2011) – A new study of coronary artery calcium scanning – a simple, noninvasive test that gives patients baseline information about plaque ...

BOUNTIFUL — Andra Lalli, 65, leads an active lifestyle. She enjoys going to the gym and has taught fitness classes for years — which is why when she went in for a heart scan, her results were ...

February is American Heart Month, a time when people can focus on their heart health. Heart health experts from the Intermountain Health Heart and Vascular Program are working to educate Utahns about ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am now 78 years old. My mother’s two brothers died of heart attacks at 55 and 65, so when I was in my 50s, I had a calcium scan of my heart. Since then, I have been taking 10 mg of ...

India is witnessing an 85% year-on-year rise in calcium scoring CT scans and a 36% jump in advanced cardiac imaging, exposing ...

When it comes to heart health, most people rely on the usual suspects , cholesterol numbers, blood pressure readings, maybe a stress test if things look off. But what if there’s a scan that could tell ...

Regular readers of my column know I have been very bullish about the Coronary Calcium Scan, also known as a calcium score test or coronary calcium score, as a test for heart disease risk. I take my ...

We are blessed to live in a county with the world’s greatest and most advanced healthcare system. Not only that, we often don’t have to worry about many issues that destroy health, like infectious ...