It can be tough to figure out if you or someone else is having a heart attack, especially since they're easily confused with panic attacks. Panic attacks generally aren't life-threatening, although ...

You're having chest pain, or you fear that your spouse is having a stroke -- and you're thinking of just driving to a hospital instead of calling 911. What do emergency department doctors think of ...

Stroke and heart attack are life-threatening conditions that require emergency medical attention, but they differ in the affected organ and symptoms.

Catching the signs early increases the chances of surviving a heart attack, but the most vital part is being able to identify when one is happening and remembering five key steps. This guide will help ...

One night, Lindsay Shanks sat up from bed and felt a sharp pain. “It felt like someone stabbed me right between my shoulder blades,” said Shanks, who was 37 at the time. “My hands started tingling, ...

They aren’t all sudden or intense, experts says. By Jancee Dunn I had a relative who experienced chest pain one afternoon. He brushed it off, and said that he’d sleep on it and that if he still felt ...

Here are the top tips on correctly identifying a heart attack and helping quickly during an emergency, according to cardiologists. Alison DeNisco Rayome Managing Editor Managing Editor Alison DeNisco ...