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‘Magic’ Pill Found to Cut Heart Attack, Stroke Risk in Half
Researchers present at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Orlando, Florida...
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Most Americans Should Reduce Salt Intake, But Do They?
As rates for high blood pressure and implicitly for heart disease and stroke are dramatically...
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FDA Expands List of Risky Weight-Loss Products
Millions of people confront themselves with the No. 1 threat to their health, namely obesity....
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Get Rid of Extra Pounds! They Shorten Your Life!
British researchers at the University of Oxford, through a new study, have warned once again...
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy!
If you don’t know the song, now it’s a good time to search for it and listen. It might...
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Optimism Adds Years to Your Life
Having a healthy concept about life has always helped people to forget things that made them...
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Unhappy Marriages May Hurt Women’s Heart, Literally
Marital stress raises health risks for women, but nor for men, according to a new study presented...
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Marion Barry ‘Is Getting Better Every Day’
The kidney transplant surgery that Washington former mayor Marion Barry underwent on Friday went...
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Mediterranean Diet May Help Keep the Brain Healthy
Everyone knows that a traditional Mediterranean diet rich in fruits and vegetables can do...
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IBM Announces Partnership with Google Health
People who already use Google Health program will now be able to transfer their health records...
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Gyms Have Special Offers for the New Year! Find a Fitness Club that Fits You
The first week of January is always the busiest time of the year for health clubs. According to...
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Gene Variant Related To High Blood Pressure Discovered
U.S. researchers identified a specific gene variant that is directly linked to the development of...
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Researchers Identified Common Gene Variant Linked To Hypertension
A team of researchers has identified a gene variant that may make people more prone to...
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Lack of Sleep Tied to Heart Disease
It has long been known that not getting enough sleep might get your heart into trouble literally....
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FDA: Weight Loss Products Are Hazardous to Our Health
The holiday season is almost here and I guess you are anxious to taste everything that...
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Immunity – Stronger at Night
New study highlights once again, if necessary, the benefits of a good night’s sleep suggesting that...
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Mediterranean Diet Enriched with Nuts Cuts Heart Risk
According to a Spanish study, Mediterranean
diet enriched with daily servings of mixed nuts may...
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Report: Some Foods Contain Too Much Salt
A new study to be published in the January issue of Consumer
Reports reveals that many foods...
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Vitamin D Protects Your Heart
Scientists are in a continuous researching process, in order to aid mankind in its fight against...
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Regular Exercise And Sleep Hours Found To Halve Women’s Cancer Risk
Lack of sleep is something common nowadays. Whether it’s
just a movie on our laptop or...
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Couch Potatoes Have Now Something to Fear: Ban on Fast Food Adverts
A new study demonstrates that banning fast
food advertisements from children’s television programs...
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Blood Pressure Drug Avapro Shows No Benefit in Heart Failure Trial
Bristol-Myers Squibb Corp. and Sanofi-Aventis SA blood
pressure drug Avapro failed in a...
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Arteries of Most Obese Kids – As Thick and Stiff as Middle-Aged Adults’
Hundreds of previous studies have shown that obesity comes with
a number of risks, such as heart...
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Chip Giant Intel Corp. Releases New Home Medical Monitor
Intel Corp., the biggest computer chip
maker, took a big step forward into health care Monday when...
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B Vitamins Don’t Fight Cancer
New research published in Tuesday’s Journal of the American
Medical Association comes to...
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Maternity Tourist Boom Brings Midwife Crisis to Hong Kong
Hong Kong - Like most things from the cradle to the grave in Hong Kong, it used to be simply a...
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Daylight Saving Time Triggers Heart Attack
Heart attack rates appear to be increasing during the daylight saving time according to a study by...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Could Double Risk of Heart Attack
Three studies scheduled to be presented this week at the
American College of Rheumatology's annual...
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EPA Sets Tighter Standard On Lead Emissions
The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has informed that they would be setting a new standard...
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EPA Strengthens Air Quality Standards For Lead Emissions
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday strengthened
the nation’s air quality...
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Breastfeeding Found to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk
Women who breastfeed their babies appear to have a reduced risk of developing heart disease when...
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Psoriasis May Lead to Diabetes and High Blood Pressure
A new study published in the April edition of the journal Archives of Dermatology concludes that...
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Americans Exposed To Heart Disease, Strokes Because Of Too Much Salt In Diet
A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers reveals that most Americans...
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Drinking coffee could lower stroke risk for women
Boston/Berlin - Women who enjoy drinking coffee may be lowering their risk of suffering a stroke,...
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Erectile dysfunction often early sign of cardiovascular disease
Wiesbaden - Impaired sexual potency can be an early sign of cardiovascular disease, according to...
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Intel and GE team up on telemedicine
New York - Going to the doctor could become a thing of the past for many people if the telemedicine...
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Diabetics at a higher risk of kidney and nerve damage
Hamburg (dpa) - Diabetics are not only at higher risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke, they...
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Viral infections carry lingering heart risks
Exercise usually helps strengthen the heart but after a bout of flu or another viral...
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69 Percent of Americans Urged to Limit Their Salt Intake
Most Americans over the age of twenty should limit the amount of salt they consume daily to 1,500...
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Many Americans Lack Vitamin D, Study Shows
Vitamin D levels have dramatically decreased among Americans over the last two decades, according...
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Study Blames 10 Genes for Sudden Cardiac Death
Scientists at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine together with an...
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FDA Includes More Weight-Loss Products on Its Risk List
The Food and Drug Administration expanded its list of tainted weight loss products that consumers...
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Blacks at Higher Risk of Heart Failure than Whites
According to one of the first long-term studies to look at heart failure in younger adults,...
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Lose Weight! Live Longer!
We know for a fact that obese people have a high risk for high blood pressure, diabetes and...
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Less Salt Would Lower Risk of Hear Disease
A recent study in the United States shows that if Americans would change their eating habits in...
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Be Optimist! You’ll Live Longer
According to the findings of a recent study carried out by the University of Pittsburgh School of...
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A Happy Marriage Keeps The Doctor Away
Scientists found that being in a strained relationship not only affected the mental health of women...
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Optimism Is the Best Medicine Ever!
A study of 100,000 women ages 50 and over since 1994, presented at the American Psychosomatic...
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Optimism Helps You Live Longer and Healthier Lives
Pessimists are now given one more reason to turn the page and be more optimistic, according to...
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Obesity Raises Risk of Joint Replacement in People with Osteoarthritis
We know for a fact that obese people have a high risk for high blood pressure, diabetes and...
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Bad Marriage Equals Heart Disease in Women
Marriage is not for everyone! I’m sure we have heard that a thousand times. As long as the...
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Lack of Sunshine Vitamin May Trigger Colds
Lack of sunshine vitamin may trigger colds, according to a study published this week in the...
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Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry to Undergo Kidney Transplant
Washington Mayor Marion Barry was admitted to Howard University Hospital Thursday to prepare for...
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The American Heart Month – How’s Your Heart Doing?
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer in both men and women, claiming the lives of nearly 1 million...
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Control Your Cardiovascular Risk Factors for a Healthy Heart!
Protecting your heart is easier than you might think! High blood pressure, high cholesterol...
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Let’s Wear Red – A Heart Disease Campaign
The Hearth Truth invites everyone to wear red today, in order to support the awareness campaign for...
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Wear Red Campaign Raises Heart Disease Awareness
February is American Heart Month, a time to think about all those simple steps that you can...
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Go Red for Women, a Campaign to Raise Heart Disease Awareness
Feb. 6 is National Wear Red Day, part of a campaign aimed to raise awareness about heart disease,...
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Weight Loss Improves Urinary Incontinence In Women
Doctors often advise patients to lose weight if they’re at risk of developing certain...
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Time Is No Threat To Kidney Donors
Many people believe that by donating a kidney, their kidney function will worsen in time, but...
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