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Coffee: Is it Good or Bad for You?
• Diabetes • • Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • • Heart • • Menopause • Feb 03 07
If your morning beverage of choice is coffee, recent research provides an extra perk.
Like much-publicized green tea, which has garnered considerable attention…
Aspirin saves lives of cancer patients suffering heart attacks, despite fears of bleeding
• Cancer • • Drug News • • Heart • Jan 22 07
Many cancer patients who have heart attacks often are not treated with life saving aspirin given the belief in the medical community that they…
Red Wine and White Wine May be Just as Healthful
• Food & Nutrition • • Heart • • Public Health • Jan 10 07
Before you enjoy that bottle of wine for your romantic Valentine’s Day dinner and touch glasses, you may really be toasting to your health.
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Overweight 9-year-old girls at heart risk
• Children's Health • • Heart • • Obesity • • Weight Loss • Jan 08 07
Girls as young as age 9 who are overweight are at heightened risk for serious short-term and long-term health problems that put them at…
High intensity training aids some heart patients
• Heart • Jun 17 05
For people with coronary artery disease (CAD) who are basically in good condition, high-intensity interval training is a safe alternative to traditional cardiac rehab…
Ulcer bug strongly linked to irregular heartbeat
• Heart • Jun 16 05
The gastric microbe, Helicobacter pylori, that’s the cause of most stomach ulcers also takes it out on the heart, according to new research.
They…
High-dose painkillers increase heart attack risk
• Heart • Jun 14 05
At high doses, both the older anti-inflammatory painkillers known as NSAIDs and the newer COX-2 inhibitors (dubbed coxibs) modestly increase the risk of heart…
Psychological distress common in heart patients
• Heart • Jun 14 05
Many people with heart failure or who have had a Heart attack suffer from psychological distress, yet only about one third of…
Exercise boosts sex life in men with heart failure
• Heart • Jun 13 05
Moderate exercise may help boost sexual function in men with heart failure, according to a review of studies on the topic..
The results may…
Lipitor does not prevent narrowing in heart valve
• Heart • Jun 09 05
The popular cholesterol-reducing drug Lipitor made by Pfizer does not prevent obstruction of the heart valve that leads to the aorta, the body’s largest…
Aspirin raise bleeding risk
• Heart • Jun 08 05
Aspirin therapy has proven useful in preventing Heart attacks, but even very low doses of the drug taken regularly pose a bleeding…
Low-level jobs linked with increased heart risk
• Heart • Jun 07 05
Lower social position is associated with faster and less variable heart rates, according to a new study. Both conditions are “almost certainly bad for…
“Bad” metabolism ups clogged arteries risk
• Heart • May 25 05
Bad” metabolism may explain why people who have never smoked and do not have high cholesterol levels suffer from a potentially lethal build-up of…
Diet high in milk may cut heart disease risk
• Heart • May 25 05
A diet high in milk does not increase the risk of Heart disease and Stroke, study suggests. On the contrary, it may protect against…
Boston Scientific, J&J stents aid high-risk cases
• Heart • May 24 05
Boston Scientific Corp. and J&J on Tuesday released separate data showing their drug-eluting stents helped keep blood vessels clear of blockages in high-risk patients…
Study finds many patients stop taking heart drugs
• Heart • May 23 05
More than a third of patients given drugs to combat high blood pressure and control cholesterol stopped taking the medicine after…
Elderly might not benefit from regular aspirin
• Heart • May 20 05
A daily baby aspirin is often recommended by doctors to help prevent Heart attackss or Stroke, but for people over 70 years…
Better care means better blood pressure control
• Heart • May 20 05
It’s well known that there are racial differences in how well high blood pressure is controlled, but this may be not so…
Carbon monoxide often damages heart
• Heart • May 12 05
Among people who suffer moderate to severe carbon monoxide poisoning, more than a third will develop cardiovascular symptoms, new research indicates.
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Beer or wine, both raise blood pressure
• Heart • May 11 05
Despite its heart benefits, drinking red wine raises blood pressure to the same degree as drinking beer, according to a small study involving men…
New drug lowers markers of heart attack risk
• Heart • May 10 05
For people with a genetic makeup that puts them at risk for having a Heart attack , treatment with an experiment drug can…
Aspirin may improve recovery after heart bypass
• Heart • May 09 05
People who are taking aspirin regularly to thin their blood and are about to undergo coronary artery bypass surgery are usually told…
Drug combos up survival for heart disease patients
• Heart • May 06 05
Drug combinations involving statins, aspirin, and beta-blockers improve the survival of people with Heart disease involving ischemia - restriction of blood flow…
Not all heart patients get best treatment - study
• Heart • May 03 05
Many Heart failure patients in Europe are not getting the best treatment because doctors are not following prescription guidelines, researchers said on Tuesday.
In…
Adult heart-muscle cells to divide and multiply ...
• Heart • May 03 05
In the best documented effort to date, researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have successfully…