Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study may partly explain what's driving rare cases of heart inflammation, called myocarditis, in some young people who have ...

People may use the term “viral heart disease” to describe viral myocarditis. This refers to when a viral infection causes inflammation of heart muscle tissue. Inflammation is the body’s natural ...

Myocarditis is an unpredictable and potentially fatal complication of treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Researchers have developed a new biomarker strategy that enables clinicians to ...

Multiple studies have shown that in rare cases, teen and young adult males have developed myocarditis after getting the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine — and now new research published in the journal Science ...

People who suffered from myocarditis after a COVID-19 vaccination had fewer cardiovascular complications a year and a half later than those who were hospitalised for the heart condition due to other ...

New research suggests there may be at least two different COVID-19-associated fulminant myocarditis phenotypes, each with its own distinct clinical and laboratory manifestations, as well as clinical ...

Treatments for cancer are continuously improving, but they can still cause debilitating, even fatal, side effects. Immune checkpoint inhibitors, or ICIs, have revolutionized cancer therapy, yet their ...

Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have identified the first blood biomarker for myocarditis, a cardiac disease that is often misdiagnosed as myocardial ...

CLAIM: Myocarditis causes irreversible damage to the heart. Within five years of diagnosis, the death rate from myocarditis is 50%. THE FACTS: Myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, is a mild, ...

A new study may partly explain what's driving rare cases of heart inflammation, called myocarditis, in some young people who have gotten repeat doses of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The risk of ...