Stories by Peter Libby

It causes chest pain, heart attack and stroke, leading to more deaths every year than cancer. The long-held conception of how the disease develops turns out to be wrong

Peter Libby, chief of cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, explains what C-reactive protein, one focus of the JUPITER study, may have to do with heart disease

It causes chest pain, heart attack and stroke, leading to more deaths every year than cancer. The long-held conception of how the disease develops turns out to be wrong

A long-held idea about how atherosclerosis develops has been overturned, offering clues to fighting this deadly disease