Contrary to popular wisdom, heart disease is not primarily a male disease, and is in fact statistically far more deadly when it occurs in women. Most women are not aware that heart disease is the number one killer of women, far greater than any other disease.
The UK Alzheimer?s Research Trust has called a report forecasting a huge rise in UK dementia cases a ?clear and stark warning? that the government needs to urgently increase its funding of research into the disease.
Research conducted at the Methodist DeBakey Heart Center in Houston shows that a combination statin therapy lowers bad cholesterol by an unprecedented 70 percent, and has the added benefit of reducing life-threatening inflammation that can lead to heart disease and stroke.
When it comes to lowering cholesterol levels, garlic stinks, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Many stroke patients have cholesterol higher than national guidelines recommend that, if managed, may have prevented the stroke from happening, according to a study published in the Feb. 27, 2007, issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Many doctors should change the way they prescribe pain relievers for chronic pain in patients with or at risk for heart disease based on accumulated evidence that nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), with the exception of aspirin, increase risk for heart attack and stroke, according to an American Heart Association statement published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
A Georgetown medical professor cuts through hype surrounding weight-loss supplements with new science-based guide.
The Medical University of South Carolina, (MUSC) was recognized for participating in an American Heart Association and American Stroke Association program called Get With the Guidelines.
The American Heart Association and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, announce the launch of a new consumer magazine, Heart Insight, for heart patients, their families and caregivers.
New figures published by Irish Life reveal that for the first time cancer has overtaken heart related illness as the number one cause of serious illness claims for men.