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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...

Causes of heart disease

It’s not too controversial to suggest that one of the chief causes of the epidemic of heart disease in the West is the industrialisation of our food s...

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...

Milk reduces risk of heart disease and stroke by 20 per cent

Milk has had a bad press – but it might reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke by up to 20 per cent, a new study suggests.

Hibernating: one riddle of heart disease

General practitioners are in a good position to spot major failings of the medical options available to us. High on the list is the inadequate way we...