Jessica was a writer on the Wellness team, with a focus on health technology, eye care, nutrition and finding new approaches to chronic health problems. Expertise Public health, new wellness ...

A HEALTHY ticker will keep you alive, but with early signs of heart problems presenting in surprisingly subtle ways, it can be easy to miss key warning signs. It means people often ignore symptoms ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women, and more than half of American adults don’t know it. Needless to say, when it comes to heart disease, a lot of us have a thing or two to ...

Chest pain can be terrifying, especially when you're unsure whether it's anxiety or something more serious like a heart ...

Heart disease rarely arrives without warning. The problem is that many of those warnings are subtle, easy to ignore, or ...

Heart attack symptoms in women can differ from the classic warning signs portrayed in men. Women may notice symptoms such as shortness of breath, nausea or overwhelming fatigue, sometimes without even ...

Rheumatic fever is a complication of a bacterial infection triggered by an atypical immune response. Rheumatic heart disease is a complication of rheumatic fever characterized by damage to the valves ...

Cardiologists aren't the only doctors who can detect heart disease. Eye doctors may also be able to spot it if this change ...

February is American Heart Month – when cardiovascular disease, the No. 1 killer of women, gets its moment in the spotlight. Every year when this month comes around, as co-founders of a women’s heart ...

In May 2019, six months after a 35-year-old Marian Dancy gave birth to her second child, she became strangely ill. Her symptoms started as general fatigue and swelling in her legs and ankles, which ...