Heart Attack: Patients given useless drug - Patients who are rushed into intensive care after a sudden heart attack are being given a useless drug.

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...

Children's asthma may be caused by air pollution - Air pollution could be a major cause of respiratory disease, including asthma in children. This finding, from the University of Groningen in the Neth...

Air pollution control reduces death rate - Irish researchers have found that measures to control air pollution have dramatically reduced the death rate from respiratory and cardiovascular disea...

Heart disease heart disease: - Less of a killer without the drugs - Heart disease is already the leading cause of death in the USA and the UK, and forecasters reckon it will soon be the major killer in every developed...

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. ...

Defibrillators don't benefit patients after heart attack - Latest clinical trials confirm that implanted cardiac defibrillators do not benefit heart attack patients. ...

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...