Topic: Europe
A London hospital has won its High Court battle over health authorities' plans to close down its children's heart surgery unit.Lawyers for the Royal Brompton in Chelsea, west London, argued that a consultation exercise launched by the Joint Committee of the Primary ...
New York (Reuters Health) - Urban cyclists may be exposed to more than twice as much black carbon from vehicle exhaust as pedestrians, a small new study suggests.By examining airway cells in sputum samples from ten people, researchers in London found black ...
(Reuters) - Elderly men with naturally higher levels of testosterone may be less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke than those men with lower levels of the hormone, according to a study.Findings published in the Journal of the American College ...
Lithuanian basketball legend Arvydas Sabonis said Tuesday he would have to limit his pleasures after suffering a heart attack a week ago, as doctors decided to release him from hospital."The doctors told me, 'You can't smoke, you can't drink, you can't play ...
Pregnant women with heart disease face a 100-fold increased risk of death, with the danger for offspring multiplied by ten, according to figures released Tuesday at a medical congress in Paris.Analysing data on 1,300 women gathered since 2008 from 28 countries across ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Chocolate may be good for the heart but cardiologists are not giving you a license to indulge.New research presented at Europe's biggest medical meeting Monday suggested chocolate consumption might be associated with a one third reduction in the risk ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research from France suggests that young, competitive athletes account for only a fraction of sports-related cardiac arrests, in which the heart stops beating without warning.Rather, most cardiac arrests may happen in adult men playing recreational sports, ...
Siestas, a health diet -- and genetics -- could explain why people on the tiny Aegean island of Ikaria live so long, said a study by Greek cardiologists released Wednesday."While in the rest of Europe only 0.1 percent of the population is ...
The diagnosis is more than 3,500 years late, but no less stunning for all of that. An Egyptian princess who lived between 1580 and 1550 BC has become the earliest person in human history to be diagnosed with coronary heart disease, according ...
Heart attacks that occur in the morning are likely to be more serious than attacks at other times of the day, a specialist journal reported on Wednesday.Spanish researchers looked at data from 811 patients who had been admitted to a Madrid clinic ...
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