What Doctors Don't Tell YouAngiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are a class of drugs commonly used to treat heart attack victims. As the name suggests, they work by blocking the action of angiotensin, the chemica ...
Heart problems still constitute a major health concern in the West - and almost as worrying are the heart drugs employed for lowering high blood pressure and cholesterol. But even major at-risk groups can avoid drugs, while still reducing their...
Doubt has been cast over a recent study which suggests that heparin in high doses can aid coronary arteries and make angioplasty unnecessary in some patients with heart attacks. ...
Q:I've been reading a lot about a promising new method of treating heart disease called chelation therapy. How established is it? Has it been proved safe to use? S F, Washington, DC..... ...
Atherosclerosis where fats narrow the main arteries, sometimes leading to a heart attack can be helped by taking beta-carotene, new research has discovered. ...
One of the arguments used to promote universal use of hormone replacement therapy protection against coronary heart disease has been refuted by a new study from the Netherlands. ...
This month, Dr Uffe Ravnskov's cover story and Annemarie Colbin's Second Opinion (p 12) both offer potent evidence that the real cause of all the heart disease in the West may have little to do wi ...
* Common symptoms of type 1 diabetes include:
frequent urination
white spots (glucose-filled urine) on underwear
frequent bladder infections
It never rains but it pours and, this time, the deluge in the medical press covers the use of non-aspirin non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NANSAIDs, both as a treatment for coronary heart disease (CHD) and as a cause of ulcers.
Electrical cardioversion - where electrical shocks are used to restore normal heart rhythm after atrial fibrillation (AF) or heart flutter - may work in the short term.
