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...
The principal surgical treatment for atherosclerosis is similar to what a plumber does with a blocked drain - it aims to widen the narrowed arteries by angioplasty. Although the process is technically sophisticated, the end result is crude. A thin...
It appears that bypass surgery interrupts a self-healing process that the body will start when it detects that oxygen is not reaching the heart. Extraordinarily, 75 per cent of heart patients experience a relief of pain within three to six months...
Sadness, isolation and loneliness can cause heart attacks. In one study in San Francisco and another in Eastern Finland, of the 20,000 people observed for up to nine years, those who were lonely ...
I am a 42-year-old local government worker. I was due to have arthroscopy on my right knee for cartilage removal but, at the last moment, the operation was cancelled because the surgeon found that I have idiopathic thrombocytopenia
Steroids have been called 'the most sleazy of modern-day medications' by John Mills, former professor of medicine at the University of California.
FORGET CHOLESTEROL: It wasn't the bad guy after all
If antacids don't cause a heart attack, then your journey to work in your car or on the bus might. Researchers have found that you are three times more likely to have a heart attack within an hour after travelling in your car or by public transport.
Medicine moves in mysterious ways its blunders to perform. Last week we revealed that antacids, those mild over-the-counter remedies for indigestion, increase your risks of pneumonia by up to three times. Now an important study this week has...
HYPERTENSION: Could it be an inflammatory disorder?
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