Inflammation resulting from a viral infection has traditionally been thought to cause acute myocarditis, which can lead to fatal heart arrhythmias in otherwise healthy young adults. Now, a new study ...

Heart inflammation caused by the mRNA COVID vaccines is rare. The COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives from a virus that has killed more than seven million people globally. Many safety studies ...

Some patients being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, a type of cancer immunotherapy, develop a dangerous form of heart inflammation called myocarditis. Researchers have now uncovered the ...

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 ...

One of the most widely known risks linked to the COVID-19 vaccine is myocarditis, especially in young males — and now a new Stanford study has shed some light on why this rare effect can occur.

The FDA said Wednesday it has expanded existing warnings on the two leading COVID-19 vaccines about a rare heart side effect mainly seen in young men. Myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation that is ...

In some cases, COVID-19 leads to pericarditis, which is inflammation of the sack-like membrane containing the heart. COVID-19 can also cause myocarditis, which is inflammation of the heart muscle.

A study by the Oregon Health Authority found reassuring evidence that a complication of the COVID-19 vaccine — myocarditis — was not associated with cardiac deaths among previously healthy young ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A genetic variant is likely putting some children suffering with myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle — at higher risk of developing heart failure, which can be fatal, ...