Heart Attack. What to do in case of a heart attack. A heart attack may have warning signs. (See below). It can occur without signs, too..
After using beta-blockers as the drug of choice to treat hypertension (high blood pressure) for 30 years, doctors have finally been warned that the drugs are ineffective and dangerous.
There’s a new group of drugs on the block that’s supposed to be the great hope for treating type 2 diabetes. This family of drugs is known as the ‘peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors’, and its first entrant is a drug with the generic name of...
Just when medicine had re-established cholesterol as the major cause of heart attack, new research has thrown up a new culprit that nobody had considered before, or possibly had even heard of homo ...
A new British review has concluded that a woman taking HRT is more likely to contract a life-threatening disease than be protected against one.
Reducing salt in your diet will not help lessen the risks of high blood pressure, stroke and heart attack. The long cherished belief that salt was a major culprit in raising blood pressure has bee ...
We don't mean to have it in for aspirin, but following last week's alert about its inability to protect against cancer, another study has revealed that it's equally ineffective against heart attack. This latest discovery is a bit of a shock for all...
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Moderate wine-drinkers those who drink between three and five glasses a day halve their chances of suffering a fatal heart attack or stroke. ...
BLOOD PRESSURE: Check the equipment before you check the patient