What Doctors Don't Tell YouEvidence 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 ...
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 ...
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Statins are the new wonder drugs now used to prevent everything from heart disease to Alzheimer's. But new evidence from a Finnish doctor shows that statins don't lower cholesterol which, in any c ...
