It’s common for smoking to cause chest pain. While not immediately dangerous, it can contribute to overall heart and lung damage the longer you smoke. Smoking is hard on your body and causes a wide ...

Pancreatitis is excruciatingly painful, especially after eating. The pancreas is behind the lower part of the stomach, stretching across the abdomen, so it was conceivable that it was the cause of the ...

Angina pectoris, often shortened to angina, is chest pain or discomfort caused by reduced blood flow to the heart and most ...

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 ...

Chest pain following pull-ups can stem from several causes, some of which are serious and others that should respond to simple care at home. It may indicate a muscle pull or spasm. However, it's not ...

Chest pain represents one of the most alarming symptoms a person can experience. The immediate fear—”Am I having a heart attack?”—creates tremendous anxiety, and rightfully so. Heart attacks claim ...

Six and a half million people cannot be wrong, or could they? Millions of people each year go to the emergency room with chest pain, believing they are experiencing a heart attack, but are not. Fifty ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Sentara Healthcare is encouraging eligible patients to talk to their providers about being screened. Imagine sitting in a doctor's office and ...

Chest pain in children usually has a benign etiology. Most patients will have a normal physical exam or findings consistent with a musculoskeletal origin (e.g., chest-wall tenderness); these patients ...