The theory that adult health is determined to a significant degree by conditions in the womb before birth has recently been challenged.
If you go to your doctor with high blood pressure, it’s very likely he’ll give you a drug called a beta-blocker. For the past 10 years, it’s been considered the ‘gold-standard treatment’ for high blood pressure, or hypertension - in other words...
I have been very reluctantly taking warfarin for the past four years in connection with atrial fibrillation. In WDDTY vol 12 no 9, it states that a multicentre US trial has found that warfarin and aspirin perform equally well in
A few walnuts in your daily diet could give you all the natural protection you need against stroke, new research has discovered. ...
Fish oils
About 6 per cent of patients who have coronary bypass surgery could suffer a stroke directly afterwards. Of these, 5 per cent die, and nearly half suffer deterioration in their intellectual functi ...
Q I’ve just had what my doctors call a ‘transient ischaemic attack, or TIA. For about 20 minutes, my sight blurred and dimmed, and I lost my hearing and ability to speak.
Twenty years of prospective follow up in the US Nurses' Health Study shows that daily HRT containing oestrogen doses of 0.625 mg or higher plus progestin may increase the risk of stroke by up to 1 ...
FOLIC ACID: More good news (we really should be buying shares)
People who suffer a stroke have very high levels of the amino acid salt glutamate in their blood, researchers have found. ...