Low bone density or other risk factors? - It is generally assumed that low bone density indicates fracture risk. However, dense bones may not necessarily be sufficient to prevent hip fracture...

Heart attack risk rises on polluted days - Checking the level of outdoor pollution before you leave the house could save your life. ...

Heart Attack: Traffic pollution increases the risk - Even a short exposure to traffic fumes can increase your chances of heart disease, including heart attack. People who exercise in areas where there is...

Heart attack risk reduced by eating fish every day - A fish diet where 35g or more of fish is eaten every day can protect you against a heart attack, researchers have concluded. ...

Factors increasing risk - In Europe and the US, the average life time risk of developing colorectal cancer is one in 20, but the risk can go up or down as a result of many fact...

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...

Skin Cancer: Why some sun worshippers are more likely to get it than others - Why is it that some sunbathers get melanoma, or skin cancer, and some don’t? One unsuspected risk factor is endometriosis, and a woman who has had th...

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. ...