Cholesterol: debate rages - High cholesterol levels may be dangerous in men although the jury's still out over this but is it the same for women? ...

Heels don't have to be high to damage knees - Wide heeled women's dress shoes cause the same if not greater damage to knees as do narrow heeled shoes, say doctors from Harvard Medical School. ...

Nsaids: not to be used for heart disease - It never rains but it pours and, this time, the deluge in the medical press covers the use of non-aspirin non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NA...

B vitamins reduce risk of heart disease - Blood levels of homocystine - a metabolic waste product involved in coronary heart disease (CHD) - can be inexpensively and effectively lowered with v...

Beans, beans, they’re good for your heart - Increasing legume consumption may be an important part of dietary interventions to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, according to a US popula...

Be My Valentine: How love can protect you against heart disease - Here’s a good message for everyone on Valentine’s Day: feeling loved can be one of the best protections against coronary heart disease. It even works...

High blood pressure and cholesterol increase alzheimer's - Individuals who have systolic hypertension and high levels of blood cholesterol in midlife appear to have a significantly increased risk of developing...

Diseases of the heart - Heart disease remains the biggest killer in the West. The immediate cause of death is a ‘sudden’ heart attack but this is the end-point of the slow pr...