Myocarditis and pericarditis are types of heart inflammation. Myocarditis affects the middle layer of heart muscle, and pericarditis only affects the heart’s outer lining. Myocarditis and pericarditis ...

The Food and Drug Administration has expanded its existing warnings for the two leading COVID-19 vaccines to highlight a rare heart-related side effect, primarily observed in young men. On June 25, ...

The diagnostic criteria for myocarditis and degree of certainty of diagnosis were adapted from the case definition and classification of the Brighton Collaboration (Pandemic Emergency Response Process ...

Myocarditis has become a flashpoint in debates about COVID vaccines; however, new research suggests this rare heart inflammation is a window into how powerful immune technologies sometimes misfire in ...

Recommendations in the new ESC guidelines are largely consistent with those of the 2024 American College of Cardiology (ACC) expert consensus decision pathway on managing myocarditis, and a 2025 joint ...

Some patients being treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors, a type of cancer immunotherapy, develop a dangerous form of heart inflammation called myocarditis. Researchers led by physicians and ...

The updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID vaccine from Moderna does not appear to carry the same risk for myocarditis in young adults that the first mRNA COVID vaccines did, suggested research presented at the ...

New research has found that patients who developed inflammation of the heart, or myocarditis, after receiving an mRNA vaccine for COVID-19 had fewer complications in the 18 months after ...

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. While extensive studies have found Covid-19 vaccines to be safe, effective, and to ...

The FDA updated warnings for Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to includes risks of myocarditis and pericarditis. A follow-up study showed some individuals who developed myocarditis after ...