Chest Pains

Over the last year, Fred Lembkie, 62, has had three heart attacks, a failed bypass surgery, two subsequent angioplasty procedures and stents inserted into his arteries. When the Portland, Ore., man finally underwent EECP treatment, a little-known, often...

Jamie Feld followed all the pre-pregnancy advice, had a checkup before conceiving and was told she was fit and healthy to carry her first baby. Throughout her pregnancy, the Northbrook resident kept up with all prenatal appointments, and all seemed well...

A 44-year-old man was hospitalized for chest pains Tuesday after he allegedly tried to flee a Burbank Vons with $864 worth of meat and cleaning supplies stuffed in a shopping cart, police said. Artur Khalatyan of Glendale entered Vons on......

A 44-year-old man was hospitalized for chest pains Tuesday after he allegedly attempted to flee a Burbank Vons with $864 worth of meat and cleaning supplies stuffed in a shopping cart, police said. The man, Artur Khalatyan of Glendale, had entered...

Sarah Batts minded her diet. She exercised regularly. She made sure her waistline never exceeded 35 inches. She was, in her own estimation, a health nut, and she had reason to be. Both her father and an older sister, who at age 50 had stents placed in...

Pasadena police officers made two dozen arrests Saturday at the Rose Bowl, where rivals USC and UCLA played for the Pac-12 Conference South Division title. Officers arrested 18 people on suspicion of being drunk in public, two on suspicion of......

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LOS ANGELES -- Former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan, back in the spotlight with a plan to scale back city employee pensions, was hospitalized briefly earlier this week with chest pain, a local news blog reported Saturday. Riordan, 82, who previously had a...

Former Mayor Richard Riordan was hospitalized overnight earlier this week, the LA Weekly reported Saturday. Riordan told the news organization he had suffered chest pains but checked out "perfectly" during a brief hospital stay for testing....

Wendy Crossland said she's always made it clear to her three kids that energy drinks were off-limits, and most importantly, never allowed in the house. "All I knew was that it had a lot of caffeine, which isn't good for anybody," she said, sitting in her...

Chicago's Brian Thies was at home when the ache he'd been feeling all day suddenly turned into crushing chest pain. Inside the ambulance, paramedics quickly determined he was suffering from the deadliest type of heart attack, an aptly named "widow-maker."...

The owner of a backyard pool where a 4-year-old boy drowned over the weekend drove into a house and died while on his way to a store to buy a pump to drain the pool, authorities said. Robert V. Miletta, 47, of Joliet died from a heart condition, an...