Learn to manage your anger if you want to avoid a heart attack that's the message from researchers at the University of North Carolina. ...
Pravastatin, the cholesterol lowering drug, is no better than placebo, a leading heart specialist has concluded. For every case of heart attack the drug prevents, 316 patients would have to be tr ...
Checking the level of outdoor pollution before you leave the house could save your life. ...
A heart patient can look forward to an invasive package of drugs, early coronary angiography and revascularisation.
The Mediterranean diet has become the ‘gold standard’ of diets for its health-enhancing benefits. Its virtues have been confirmed in a new study involving 22,043 adults in Greece who lived a long and healthy life – provided they...
Universal screening for cholesterol should be abandoned, the powerful American College of Physicians (ACP) has decreed. Those aged over 75 can safely ignore any screening because cholesterol is no ...
Just a few short months ago, cholesterol drugs were a dead duck. Studies began appearing showing that even after years of cholesterol drug consumption, patients were no better off in terms of prev ...
The Alzheimer’s drug Reminyl (galantamine hydrobromide) could prove fatal to patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to Ortho-McNeil Neurologics, the company that makes the drug. The warning was issued to healthcare professionals...
Intravenous magnesium has been found to reduce early death from heart attacks. ...
Botox injection is the fastest-growing sector of cosmetic surgery in the US following its approval by the US Food and Drug Administration last April.