LONDON (Reuters) - Intelligence comes second only to smoking as a predictor of heart disease, scientists said on Wednesday, suggesting public health campaigns ...
The family of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan insisted Tuesday that they do "not blame anyone" for her father's death and criticized a medical ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The saturated fat found mainly in meat and dairy products has a bad reputation, but a new analysis of published studies finds no clear link between people's intake of saturated fat and their risk of developing heart ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Being diagnosed with prostate cancer roughly doubles the risk of suicide or death from a heart attack, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, adding to the harm linked with diagnosis of this often slow-growing cancer. A team at Harvard and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Taking ginkgo biloba, St. John's wort and other widely used herbal supplements may be risky for people on heart disease medication, especially the elderly, according to a medical review released on Monday. Some herbal remedies may increase the potency ...
Shawn Helbig, 27, who has Fragile X syndrome, visits Emory University's Department of Human Genetics, where he is taking part in a clinical trial to find a treatment for the genetic condition, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, in Atlanta. Krista Charen, a clinical ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Decades of progress in the United States on cutting cholesterol, blood pressure and smoking are being stalled by rising obesity rates, and heart disease will kill around 400,000 Americans this year, experts said on Monday. A study by British ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older adults can cut their cholesterol levels by revamping their dietary fat intake -- even if they are already on cholesterol-lowering statins, a new study finds. Conventional wisdom holds that people should follow a healthy diet and ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research from Spain confirms the benefit of a Mediterranean diet to a healthy heart. In an analysis of more than 40,000 Spanish adults followed for an average of 10 years, researchers found that sticking to a ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Burning sections of the heart works far better than drugs at treating patients with an irregular heartbeat condition called atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder that affects more than 2 million Americans, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. The ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with high blood pressure who want to drop some pounds may want to choose a low-carb diet, a new study shows. In the study, overweight or obese individuals who went on a low-carb diet lost about ...
Cardiologists could soon have 3-D images of patients' coronary arteries at their fingertips and better treat heart disease thanks to a new software unveiled by researchers on Tuesday. The technology, which has just been tested for the first time on people, remains ...
