Chest pain is not a symptom that doctors can use to accurately diagnose a woman suffering a major heart attack, according to new research. A survey of about 800 women and 1,700 men found that women ...

Adults 18 to 55 years old who come to the emergency room with chest pain may wait longer and get less thorough workups when they’re female or Black, a new study suggests. Every second counts when ...

Women and people of color 55 and younger tend to face longer wait times than white men when they go to the emergency room seeking help for chest pain, according to a new data analysis published ...

Women and people of color with chest pain -- the most common symptom signaling a heart attack-- face longer waits in U.S. emergency departments than men and White people do, new research reveals. For ...

An intensive three-drug regimen of heart medications did not significantly impact the rate of serious cardiovascular events at five years in women who experienced signs and symptoms of ischemia, or ...

Women’s chest pain can be a commonly misunderstood and misdiagnosed condition, but Northwell Health’s newest program is seeking to address this issue. “It treats a condition, or set of conditions, I ...

Among younger adults visiting the emergency department for chest pain, women may be getting the short end of the stick. Compared with men of similar age, women were triaged less urgently, waited ...

From chronic pain to emergency room visits, women's medical concerns are often dismissed at higher rates than those of men. One study shows that middle-aged women with chest pain were twice as likely ...

Several studies support the claim that gender bias in medicine routinely leads to a denial of pain relief for female patients for a range of health conditions Dec. 13 at 6:00 a.m. One woman was told ...