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...

Heart Problems: Alternative treatments - Despite the battalion of drugs and aggressive surgery on offer to anyone with a heart condition, there’s plenty of evidence that suggests a change in...

Ovarian cancer - Women who have their first child later in life greatly reduce the risk of developing ovarian cancer, researchers believe. The risk falls by 10 per cen...

Asthma sufferers: heart problems - Asthma sufferers who use beta-agonist inhalers run twice the risk of dying from a heart condition than those using other treatments. ...

Heart attack: deadly drugs - Heart attack patients given antiarrhythmic (irregular heartbeat) drugs are more likely to die. ...

Surgery: Heart problems not helped by drugs - Around 1 million people suffer heart complications, such as heart attack, angina and heart failure, every year after surgery. Of these, 250,000 die.

Heart attack - Find out if you’re at risk - Want to know if you’re at risk from a heart attack? Forget the BMI (body mass index), a measure based on your height and weight and, instead, use your...

Recognising a heart attack - How do you know if you’re having a heart attack? There are three main symptoms of a heart attack: