The build-up of these tiny plastic particles in blood vessels is linked to a greater risk of heart attack ... a macrophage cell (left) and free floating in plaque removed from patients' carotid ...

Braun Medical, due to floating particles found in vials of the drug ... using the drug could result in blood clots causing stroke, heart attack and other catastrophic problems.

Research has linked microplastics to chronic illnesses including cancer, heart disease and ... A total of 7,500 particles ...

An analysis of artery-clogging plaques in 257 patients found that the presence of these microplastics was associated with a roughly quadrupled risk of heart attack, stroke or death, researchers ...

The plastics problem isn't just about clogged waterways and floating debris anymore ... raising concerns about how these microscopic particles might affect other animals, including humans.

Many of those particles weren’t all that small ... epidemic and in other metabolic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, as well as cancer and reproductive problems and neural problems ...

not if cells are infected by free-floating viral particles. Researchers from the Gladstone Institutes have revealed that HIV does not cause AIDS by the virus's direct effect on the host's immune ...

That increase has created a "plastic smog" in the world's oceans made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles, the scientists said. The authors used 11,777 samples taken from the surface ...