Heart attacks can be good for you, according to doctors in Germany and Britain. ...
Tambocor (flecainide) is one of a group of antiarrhythmics called ‘class I agents’, or sodium-channel blockers. Class II agents are the beta-blockers, and class IV agents are calcium antagonists.
The widely prescribed cholesterol lowering drug pravastatin is little better than a sugar pill in protecting against a second heart attack, a major study has discovered. ...
Diabetic women taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are at increased risk of death from ischaemic heart disease (blocked vessels) and all other causes.
If you've had a heart attack, start taking fish oil it will reduce your chances of having another one. ...
HRT: Modesty forbids, but we told you so
Margarine is more likely to give you a heart attack than butter, as every newspaper has told you recently. As a result of this publicity, the makers of Flora Britain's best-selling margarine have ...
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 ...
Still on the mind/body connection, another study has discovered that sudden stress can affect the heart. The research team says that emotional stress - possibly brought on by the sudden death of a loved one - can cause left ventricular dysfunction...