DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm 36 and do not have any significant medical concerns, but due to a family member's heart health issues, it was recommended I have a cardiac evaluation. After undergoing an ...

Researchers found closure of patent foramen ovale could result in reduced monthly migraine days. Treatment with patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure could reduce the frequency of headaches and monthly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 17—THOMASVILLE- Archbold Interventional Cardiologist Jared Davis, MD, recently performed a cutting-edge cardiac procedure ...

It's true that the older you get, the higher your risk of stroke increases. But strokes can occur at any age, even if you're "young" (that is, someone younger than 60). Often, strokes in the young are ...

Among patients with patent foramen ovale (PFO) and history of stroke, older age is associated with a substantially higher risk of recurrent stroke, according to new epidemiologic research. “This means ...

The hypothesis that migraine headaches may be linked to patent foramen ovale (PFO)—meaning PFO closure could be considered as a treatment—is getting renewed support from two new studies that show ...

Presenters: Peter Wilmshurst, MD (Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Shrewsburg, UK); Andrew Dowson, MD (King's College Hospital, London), on Behalf of the MIST Investigators Catheter-based closure of patent ...

Over the past years, many researchers have been engaged in deciphering the interrelationship between migraine and patent foramen ovale (PFO) and have tried to answer the question of whether PFO ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- There's a surprising treatment for some kinds of debilitating migraine headaches, and it involves closing a hole in the heart. Migraines affect about 40 million people in the ...