Heart disease often develops silently for decades, and a calcium heart scan is one of the few tools that can spot trouble ...

Learn what a CAC scan is, what different calcium scores mean and whether this quick heart test is right for you.

CT scans for the heart are increasingly being promoted as a means to detect blocked arteries early on, particularly after instances of young people dying of sudden cardiac arrest. But should healthy ...

April 11 (UPI) --A newly developed, non-invasive imaging test can help identify which patients with coronary artery blockage or narrowing need angioplasty or a bypass procedure, a U.S. study published ...

As technology offers more tools to help diagnose heart disease, you may need to adjust your approach. Here’s the latest on one of those new tools. One of the greatest challenges facing primary-care ...

Patients with symptoms of heart disease have similar outcomes in terms of death and major cardiac conditions regardless of whether they undergo a functional stress test or a computed tomographic scan, ...