Chest wall pain may result from an injury to the muscles, joints, or cartilage. In some cases, home treatments such as hot or cold therapy may help. The cause of chest pain is difficult to diagnose ...

Reproducible chest pain means that a doctor or medical team can reproduce the pain under specific circumstances through pressing or touching. Doctors often use it as an early diagnostic tool when a ...

"If I wasn’t treated sooner, I could have suffered a heart attack and died that day," Sammy Ouatts told Newsweek.

People who have had COVID-19 may experience lingering chest pains for up to a year after infection, a new study found. "Long COVID," which refers to conditions that linger for months or even years ...

Chest pain is a relatively common symptom of COPD. It may occur due to bronchial spasms, digestive conditions like GERD, or even frequent coughing. Managing COPD-related chest pain involves several ...

Constipation can cause chest pain. It’s important to know the difference between this and chest pain due to heart or blood vessel problems, which can occasionally be caused or worsened by constipation ...

For people with stable chest pain and an intermediate pretest probability of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), an initial CT strategy fared similarly to invasive coronary angiography (ICA) ...

Researchers identified 11 studies for the systematic review, 10 of which were included in the meta-analysis that assessed 3,052,540 pediatric patients (mean age, 10.1-13 years) who presented to the ED ...

Chest pain can signal something serious, and it’s often an emergency. But discomfort in your chest area can also be a sign of a minor annoyance. That means that when you notice it, you may be ...

There can be many possible causes for pain on the right side of the chest. In fact, it’s one of the most common reasons people visit the emergency room, says Dr. Stephen Keithahn, an internist at the ...