What Doctors Don't Tell YouA major HRT trial in the US has been halted because the combination of conjugated equine oestrogen (0.625 mg/ day) and medroxyprogesterone acetate (2.5 mg/day) (Prempro) simply did more harm than good.
How likely are you to have a heart attack? Researchers have pin-pointed nine factors that will determine your risk.
New evidence unearthed by Dr Jack Levenson, the dentist who has led the fight against amalgam fillings in the UK, shows that dental fillings could be behind the burgeoning of many 20th century con ...
Evidence continues to mount on the protective effect of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) on the heart. ...
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 ...
