To prevent heart artery blockages, it’s important to take care of your health. High cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking ...

Recent developments in reimbursement and insurer coverage for plaque analysis in the US are a step towards the evaluative ...

Not getting enough physical activity and eating an unhealthy diet are also big contributors. If you don’t move enough, it’s ...

Heart disease, a silent killer, stems from fatty plaque buildup in arteries. These plaques, composed of fats, cholesterol, calcium, and fibrin, narrow vessels, restricting blood flow and raising heart ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the brain, public health, or both at the same time. Amyloid beta protein plaques have been a major target of ...

A new positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer, gallium-68 (Ga-68)-pentixafor, can quickly and non-invasively identify life-threatening atherosclerotic plaques. The tracer binds to the CXCR4 ...