(Lifespan) Rhode Island Hospital physicians report that managing patients within an emergency department chest pain unit by both emergency medicine staff and cardiologists is safe and effective and may lower the use of stress testing. A new study indicates that when patients were jointly managed and when stress testing was ...

(HealthDay) -- Two out of five women having a heart attack do not experience chest pain, according to a new study.

A study in the February issue of JAMA , shows that women are more likely than men to be admitted to a hospital without chest pain, and also have a higher rate of in-hospital death after a heart attack, compared with men of the same age group, even though these ...

(American College of Chest Physicians) The American College of Chest Physicians has received Accreditation With Commendation from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. This achievement grants the ACCP accreditation through November 2017 and places the organization in the highest tier of all continuing medical education providers, including some of ...

Lung cancer takes a heavy toll, contributing to more cancer deaths in the United States each year than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined. Contributing to this poor prognosis is the fact that lung cancer often goes undetected until the disease has reached an advanced and more difficult-to-treat stage.

A new Scottish study published online in Europe's leading cardiology journal, the European Heart Journal, explains that men and women hospitalized for chest pain unrelated to heart disease with a history of psychiatric illness have a higher death rate than individuals without prior mental health problems...

New research from Scotland has shown that the rate of death in men and women hospitalised for chest pain unrelated to heart disease is higher in those with a history of psychiatric illness than without...

New research from Scotland has shown that the rate of death in men and women hospitalised for chest pain unrelated to heart disease is higher in those with a history of psychiatric illness than without.

THURDSAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Children with sunken chest require prompt evaluation to rule out more serious underlying conditions and to plan corrective surgery if necessary, according to experts. Sunken or hollow chest, the result of a malformed rib cage, is one of the most common birth ...

Hollow or sunken chest, the most common congenital deformity of the chest wall affecting one in 300 to one in 400 children, is rarely life-threatening and virtually all children can have successful surgical repairs.

In a trial that included more than 150,000 participants, those who underwent annual chest radiographic screening for up to 4 years did not have a significantly lower rate of death from lung cancer compared to participants who were not screened, according to a study in the November 2 issue of ...

In a trial that included more than 150,000 participants, those who underwent annual chest radiographic screening for up to 4 years did not have a significantly lower rate of death from lung cancer compared to participants who were not screened, according to a study in the November 2 issue of ...