Topic: Heart Attacks
High levels of the stress hormone cortisol in hair may be a strong predictor of heart attacks months in advance, said Canadian researchers in the journal Stress. Issues such as jobs, marital or financial problems are linked to an increased risk for ...
Pit bull guarded Washington state woman after she suffered fatal heart attack while on a walkPolice in the Washington state city of Bremerton say a pit bull reported as a menacing dog was just protecting its owner who had suffered a heart ...
BOGOTA (Reuters) - A Colombian passenger jet operated by local airline Aires crashed while landing on San Andres island on Monday during a storm, injuring 114 passengers while one died of a heart attack, local authorities said. The Boeing 737 carrying 121 ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - As the death toll of Moscow's blistering heat continues to rise, British researchers said Wednesday that cold weather may exact a price, too. They found that when temperatures dropped just one degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) on a ...
Colombian VP Garzon has heart attack less than 2 days after inauguration, 'stable' at hospitalA heart attack has sent Colombia's new vice president to the hospital after less than two days on the job. Bogota's health secretary says Angelino Garzon is "stable ...
US Vets president Dwight Radcliff dies of heart attack in Marina del Rey at age 55Air Force veteran Dwight Radcliff, president of the United States Veterans Initiative, has died of a heart attack. He was 55. Family spokeswoman Nicole Ward says Radcliff ...
ADELPHI, Maryland (Reuters) - U.S. advisers backed a potential blockbuster blood thinner from AstraZeneca on Wednesday, a victory for a company seeking new drugs to offset expiring patents on some of its best-selling medicines. Members of a Food and Drug Administration panel ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - People with high levels of the so-called good cholesterol HDL tend to have fewer heart attacks but HDL may offer little protective benefit in people who take statins to lower harmful LDL cholesterol, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. An ...
A majority of members of a key advisory committee recommended Wednesday that the US government allow diabetes drug Avandia to stay on the market with greater restrictions on its sale. Most of the panel's members agreed that the drug does increase the ...
FDA panel says Avandia should stay on market despite evidence of heart risksA majority of federal health experts voted Wednesday to keep the controversial diabetes pill Avandia on the market despite evidence that it increases the risk of heart attack. A panel ...
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What causes a heart attack?
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Heart attacks kill almost 700000 men and women each year ...2007-05-01
