The latest quarterly waiting times figures show the NHS has achieved its best ever all round performance with patients continuing to benefit from the lowest ever inpatient and outpatient waiting times.
Diesel fumes pose a major health risk to commuters, according to a new report by the non-profit Clean Air Task Force.
Researchers found a 69 percent increase in the rate of the disease in Ontario between 1995 and 2005 — far beyond the 60 percent global predicted increase for 2030 and above rates projected for Canada by then, reported by Reuters Canada.
A team of researchers from the United States and Iran has identified a genetic mutation that causes early onset coronary artery disease in members of a large Iranian family.
Yale School of Medicine researchers have identified a rare defect in a single gene that poses a substantial risk for metabolic syndrome and early heart disease, the leading cause of death worldwide.
A widely practiced, stress-reducing meditation technique significantly decreases the severity of congestive heart failure, according to a first-of-its-kind randomized study published in Ethnicity & Disease (Winter 2007).
Primary graft dysfunction, a common compliction that affects up to 25 percent of lung transplant patients shortly after surgery, constitutes a significant risk factor for later deadly bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS).
A study published in the March 1 issue of the journal Sleep finds that people with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are at an increased risk of having cardiovascular disease.
Graphic images on cigarette packets, similar to those introduced in Australia last March, have been found in a recently-published international study to be the most effective way to get across to smokers the range and severity of the health risks they face.
Adults who met with pharmacists or pharmacy students during a community outreach and screening project about metabolic syndrome, returned four months later with lower risk factors for heart disease, researchers reported today at the American Heart Association?s 47th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.