Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our lives are filled with plastic, in everything from packaging to textiles. New research suggests “micronanoplastics” might be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Powerful magnification allowed researchers to count and identify microplastic beads and fragments that were collected in 11 ...

WHEN Jaycie Conley felt a tension headache coming on, she gave her neck a satisfying crack.  So when the 33-year-old found ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Higher salt intake was associated with hardening of heart and neck arteries. The association appears to be due ...

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 ...

Neck manipulation, sometimes called “neck cracking,” is generally considered safe when performed by a trained and licensed professional to treat neck pain. A vertebral artery dissection, which is a ...

An Instagram star suffered a stroke while doing a yoga move and now she's sharing her story as a warning to others. Rebecca Leigh is a yoga enthusiast, inspiring her more than 26,000 followers on ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older Hispanic adults with even small blockages in the neck arteries face a heightened risk of suffering or dying from a heart attack or stroke, researchers reported ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people found to have a symptomless buildup of plaque in their neck arteries, intensive medical therapy, not surgery, should be tried first, researchers conclude based ...

The optical capabilities of smartphone cameras are opening up possible point-of-care medical applications in a number of fields. Recent examples have included using the phone's camera as a ...

Microplastics are everywhere – even in the fatty deposits called plaque that can build up in the arteries and cause heart disease and strokes. Now researchers in Italy have found that in people with ...