Researchers from the University of Warwick, and University College London, have found that lack of sleep can more than double the risk of death from cardiovascular disease. However they have also found that point comes when too much sleep can also more than double the risk of death.
The global epidemic of Type 2 diabetes is an indicator of serious underlying issues in our society, says a University medical expert.
The Hong Kong Department of Health advised consumers not to use Deguozhanjiang because it contains sildenafil and tadalafil, prescription drugs used for the treatment of erectile dysfunction that should only be taken under the guidance of a health professional.
The Malaysian Ministry of Health cancelled the registration of the product Oyster Plus due to the presence of tadalafil, a prescription drug used for the treatment of erectile dysfunction that should only be taken under the guidance of a health professional.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration of Australia advised consumers not to use Top Gun for Men Herbal Extracts because it contains a substance similar to tadalafil.
The Hong Kong Department of Health advised consumers not to use Chongcaoliubian Jiaonang or Santi Scalper Penis Erection Capsule because they contain sildenafil.
Having a healthy kidney is worth a billion dollars. But an unhealthy kidney costs more—about $16 billion more, according to Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, MD, PhD, associate professor in the division of nephrology and hypertension at the University of Cincinnati (UC).
A new book of pocket-charts that will help health workers to identify people at risk of heart attacks and strokes and save lives by prescribing the most appropriate treatment is published by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Patients with high blood pressure respond very differently to anti-hypertensive medication, making treatment selection tricky for physicians. But new research published in the online open access journal, BMC Medical Genetics, pinpoints a number of gene-drug interactions that could allow medication to be tailored to individual patients based on their genetics.
Being moderately overweight or obese appears to increase the risk for developing coronary heart disease events independent of traditional cardiovascular risk factors, according to a meta-analysis of previously published studies in the September 10 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.