Topic: Heart Attacks

Even a few pain pills may be unsafe in heart disease

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some anti-inflammatory painkillers are known to increase heart risks, and new findings from more than 83,000 people suggest that even a couple of days of treatment can be dangerous in people with a history of heart problems.A ...

Arrested Mubarak wife 'stable after heart attack'

Egypt's former first lady Suzanne Mubarak was in a stable condition and under the control of police on Saturday, a day after reportedly suffering a heart attack, the health minister said.The 70-year-old wife of ousted president Hosni Mubarak had been placed in ...

Mubarak wife stable and available for police: minister

CAIRO (Reuters) - The health of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's wife has improved after suffering symptoms of a heart attack and she is now available for police to take her to prison, the health minister said on Saturday.An anti-corruption agency ordered ...

Mubarak wife in ICU after heart attack: TV

Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's wife, Suzanne, was moved to an intensive care unit after suffering a heart attack Friday, hours after being ordered detained in a corruption probe, state TV said."Suzanne Thabet has been moved to the intensive care unit at ...
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 ...

Houllier to be discharged this week - club

Aston Villa manager Gerard Houllier is to be discharged from hospital later this week after a health scare which saw him admitted with chest pains, the club said Tuesday.Houllier, 63, was expected to leave hospital in "three to four days" the club ...

Guidelines help prevent heart attack deaths

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When doctors follow guidelines for treating patients after a heart attack, more patients survive, according to a new study from Sweden published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.The findings show that "things that we test ...

Aspirin cuts heart attacks, not deaths or strokes

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Small doses of aspirin can lower the risk of heart attack in people who never had heart disease, a new look at the medical evidence shows.But the blood-thinning drug doesn't appear to cut the chances of dying ...
Italian chocolate tycoon Pietro Ferrero is suspected to have died of a heart attack while cycling in South Africa but a post-mortem will establish the cause of death, police said on Tuesday.The 47-year-old joint chief executive of the group that owns Nutella ...
The effects of a major natural disaster can linger and cause heart attacks and other health woes for years, according to a study released Sunday of New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina.Four years after the massive hurricane swept through the celebrated southern ...