The term cardiovascular disease covers a broad array of health problems. Everyone tends to think of heart attacks or hypertension when it is brought up. However, there are less publicized diseases ...

Even if you stay fit, healthy and active, injuries happen. And sometimes, the wear-and-tear of small issues and accidents can snowball into larger consequences, especially as we age. In December 2025, ...

Routine use of an orbital atherectomy device to remove calcium from severely blocked coronary arteries before patients undergo cardiac stenting procedures does not improve outcomes, a Mount Sinai-led ...

A global medical technology company has acquired AVS, maker of a device treating arterial calcification, to expand patient ...

As part of an international collaboration, researchers from ELTE Eötvös Loránd University developed a new animal model to study a rare genetic disease that can lead to blindness at the age of 40-50.

A recent research letter published in the journal Nature Cardiovascular Research describes two new genetic loci associated with coronary artery calcification (CAC). CAC is a measure of atherosclerosis ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 79-year-old female. Recently, I was diagnosed with moderate calcification of leaflets on my mitral valve. I have no symptoms but heard from a recent talk that even moderate ...