'echo' heart test: life threatening - Echocardiography a diagnostic test on the heart using soundwaves is more dangerous than had been thought, and could lead to life threatening complicat...

The X-Factor: Could vitamin E be the key to a long and healthy life? - Vitamin E could be the ‘X factor’ in determining how long and well we live. People with low levels of the nutrient decline more rapidly, researchers...

Catheters are 'life threatening' - Pulmonary artery catheters used extensively in hospitals to check heart and organ condition could be a danger to the patient, possibly even threatenin...

Appetite Suppressants: They cause heart failure, doctors discover - Anti-obesity drugs and appetite suppressants are causing heart attacks, doctors have discovered. All the patients had been healthy, with no history of...

Psoriasis: Drug causes life-threatening infection - A psoriasis drug can cause life-threatening infections, including bacterial sepsis, viral meningitis and invasive fungal disease, it has been revealed...

Heart attack and strokes: - Don't drive your car - If antacids don't cause a heart attack, then your journey to work in your car or on the bus might. Researchers have found that you are three times mo...

The longevity x-factor: why are the japanese living longer? - The inhabitants of southern Japan are among the very small groups of people around the world who are living healthy and active lives beyond the age of...

Heart Attack: It makes your doctor proud - If you want your doctor to think highly of you, have a heart attack, or failing that, leukaemia will just about do. And if you have fibromyalgia or a...