Some patients being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, a type of cancer immunotherapy, develop a dangerous form of heart inflammation called myocarditis. Researchers led by physicians and ...

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 ...

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.

People with postvaccine myocarditis did not share the typical mid-term complications associated with conventional myocarditis, based on a population-based study from France. With 18-month follow-up of ...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized cancer treatment by using the patient's own T-cells to target tumors. However, they can cause rare, but potentially fatal cardiac inflammation ...

The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it was expanded existing warnings on the two leading COVID vaccines about a rare heart side effect mainly seen in young men, despite previous guidance ...

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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, ...