Trasylol off market for good?
15/5/2008 |
Study shows patients given the controversial anti-bleeding drug Trasylol during heart surgery were much more likely to die than patients given other drugs.
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Poverty causes heart disease?
9/5/2008 |
A person's blood pressure normally drops during the night, but his or her socioeconomic status in childhood appears to influence how readily this occurs in adulthood.
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Young women and heart attacks
5/5/2008 |
Many younger women ignore or simply don't recognise the warning signs of a heart attack, often because it doesn't resemble the typical "Hollywood heart attack".
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Heart disease overwhelms India
25/4/2008 |
By 2010, India will carry 60 percent of the world's heart disease burden, nearly four times more than its share of the global population, according to a new study.
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Menstrual blood to heal heart
24/4/2008 |
The monthly discomfort many women see as a curse could pay off someday as Japanese researchers say menstrual blood can be used to repair heart damage.
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Fish oil stabilises heart rhythm
23/4/2008 |
A prospective clinical study, the consumption of fish oil supplements had the effect of reducing the electrical irritability of the heart in people with heart rhythm disturbances.
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Heart not to blame for poor sex
14/4/2008 |
A woman's satisfaction with her sex life appears to have very little to do with the health of her heart and circulation, according to a new analysis.
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Too many eggs up risk of death
10/4/2008 |
Middle-aged men who ate seven or more eggs a week had a higher risk of earlier death, US researchers reported.
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1 month exercise vs heart failure
9/4/2008 |
Just four weeks of moderate exercise is enough to boost the cardiac performance and breathing capacity of patients with heart failure, a new study finds.
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Dagga deadly after heart attack
31/3/2008 |
Marijuana users may have a shorter life expectancy after suffering a heart attack than people who do not use the drug, a new study suggests.
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