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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BLOOD PRESSURE: Check the equipment before you check the patient
Latest clinical trials confirm that implanted cardiac defibrillators do not benefit heart attack patients. ...
Hard on the heels of the COX-2 debacle, the US Food and Drug Administration, which somehow seems to have developed a conscience, has recently issued a Public Health Advisory targeting all non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) as worthy of...
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