Your arteries play an important role in your cardiovascular health, transporting blood from the heart to all of the body’s cells. And that’s especially true for your carotid (neck) arteries, since ...

Pennsylvania heart specialists welcomed the results of a decade-long study reinforcing their belief in minimally invasive techniques to treat clogged neck arteries versus major surgery. Researchers ...

Cardiologists have long warned that heart attacks and strokes rarely arrive without some kind of signal, yet those signals ...

Carotid angioplasty and stenting can help open up blocked carotid arteries. It’s often used to help prevent strokes, and your doctor might recommend it if you have a blocked artery. If you’re feeling ...

A carotid endarterectomy involves making an incision in the neck, opening the carotid artery and physically removing the ...

Our lives are filled with plastic, in everything from packaging to textiles. New research suggests “micronanoplastics” might be accumulating in arteries, with potentially serious consequences for our ...

Dr Sumit Kapadia, Vascular Surgeon and Varicose Vein Specialist, recently on his IG handle, spoke about artery blockages, and ...

Q: After having ultrasound and angiograms, I've been told that I have a 70 percent blockage of both of the carotid arteries in my neck. I have been advised that surgery is the solution to my problem.

I have a carotid artery problem. My right side is 79 percent blocked, but the left side is clear. My eye doctor said that surgery would not be necessary because the left side could take over if the ...

The risk of a heart attack among adults after a clot-caused stroke or a stroke plus a tear in the wall of a neck artery (carotid or vertebral artery dissection) was almost double within the first year ...

A small study found that fatty buildup in the blood vessels of the neck (carotid arteries) may contain 50 times or more micronanoplastics — minuscule bits of plastic — compared to arteries free of ...

Las Vegas mom Carissa Klundt ended up in the ICU and was bedridden for weeks after a chiropractic injury Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard ...