Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle and is often related to a viral infection. Myocarditis typically causes shortness of breath and chest pain. The risk of getting myocarditis from a COVID ...

The risk of myocarditis is higher after Covid infection than Pfizer or Moderna vaccination across all gender and age groups studied, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a committee of independent expert advisers convened Wednesday to lay out and discuss everything they know about rare cases of ...

Multiple studies have shown that in rare cases, teen and young adult males have developed myocarditis after getting the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine — and now new research published in the journal Science ...

Now that hundreds of millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the U.S., an abundance of safety data has been collected. While this data shows that COVID-19 vaccines are safe ...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory panel is set to meet Wednesday to discuss reports of myocarditis and pericarditis in some COVID-19 mRNA vaccine recipients. Leading up to ...

(UPDATED) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reporting a higher-than-expected number of myocarditis cases among young people who received the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna ...

Myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, occurred in 1 of 12,361 boys aged 12 to 15 within a week of receiving a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, researchers found. By Apoorva ...

This article was published in 2021. Read this 2022 article for a more up-to-date look at myocarditis and covid-19 vaccines. HEART inflammation triggered by some covid-19 vaccines has been a concern, ...

An official Israeli report released Tuesday found a striking correlation between COVID-19 mRNA vaccinations and a spike in cases of a heart-inflammation condition in young males, which appears likely ...

Penn State’s director of athletic medicine made national news Thursday for alarming comments on the link between the novel coronavirus and the heart condition myocarditis, which he later corrected.