Reverse heart disease
When it comes to keeping your heart healthy, what foods you eat and the genes you inherit matter. Good heart health also may depend on the drugs you take. Several medicines are effective at lowering blood cholesterol levels a key factor in good
Gum disease may raise cancer risk - Straits Times
CHICAGO - GUM disease may increase the risk of developing cancer, researchers said on Tuesday. Male health professionals with a history of gum disease in a long-running study had a 14 per cent higher overall risk of developing cancer, they said
Gum disease may raise cancer risk, study finds - Reuters UK
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Gum disease may increase the risk of developing cancer, researchers said on Tuesday. Male health professionals with a history of gum disease in a long-running study had a 14 percent higher overall risk of developing cancer, they
Heart Patients Know Little About Cardiac Disease, Study Finds - Bloomberg
May 26 (Bloomberg) — Almost half of patients with coronary disease don’t know what the symptoms of heart attacks are and don’t see themselves as being at heightened risk, according to a study in the Archives of Internal Medicine . Forty-six percent
Childhood obesity hits a plateau, CDC finds - Boston Globe
The childhood obesity epidemic could finally be leveling off, according to new national figures. A report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the current Journal of the American Medical Association found no significant increase
Another 1.5m people should take statins, doctors told - Times Online
An extra 1.5 million people could benefit from regularly taking statins, the chloresterol-lowering drugs, potentially saving thousands of lives every year, a health watchdog says today. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE
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