Topic: Harvard Medical School
I'm a great fan of medical myth-busting - and one of the biggest is that heart disease affects mainly the alpha male. Recent research by Harvard Medical School suggests that women with stressful jobs face a 40 per cent higher risk of ...
The drug is marketed under the brand name Plavix by Bristol-Meyers Squibb in the United States and Sanofi-Aventis in France.Clopidogrel, among the most commonly prescribed medications, has been shown to reduce cardiovascular problems in patients undergoing heart procedures like balloon angioplasty or ...
Respiratory Smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer, accounting for 90 percent of lung cancer deaths in men and 80 percent in women. Heart disease, the No. 1 cause of death in the United States, may be caused by smoking. Cancer ...
Researchers have identified clinical descriptors that can help clinicians identify which patients with atherothrombosis are at highest risk for future cardiovascular events. This research has been published online Aug. 30 in the Journal of the American Medical Association to coincide with the ...
Regular, moderate chocolate consumption is linked to a lower rate of heart failure hospitalization or death, but no protective association is seen in individuals consuming one or more servings of chocolate daily, according to a study published online Aug. 16 in Circulation: ...
Postmenopausal women who took combination hormone therapy did not have a lower risk of coronary heart disease during the first two years of treatment, according to an article in the Feb. 16 Annals of Internal Medicine.. When considering whether to prescribe estrogen ...
The article reports on the study conducted by researchers from the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts about the risk of atrial fibrillation on heavy drinker women. It found that for the 15,370 women who reported no alcohol consumption, the age-adjusted incidence ...
A healthy lifestyle is associated with a significantly reduced risk of hypertension in younger women and of heart failure in older men, according to two studies in the July 22/29 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.. In one study, ...
Heart Hospitals Reveal New Discoveries and Tested Methods For Preventing Heart ProblemsBy Jonathan BuschlenAsk any of the professionals working in the country's heart hospitals, and they will likely tell you that they love their jobs, but they wish they didn't have to ...
Spinal surgeons vary widely in their practices for thromboembolic prophylaxis after high-risk surgery and often base their decisions on personal experience over scientific evidence, according to the results of a study published in the Dec. 15 issue of Spine.. Michael P. Glotzbecker, ...
