Western Europe - How to Avoid a Heart Attack

A pill for chest pains costing £10 a week could save the lives of thousands of heart failure patients and dramatically reduce hospital admissions, trial results published Monday suggest. Professor Martin Cowie, who led the UK-based part of the study, said the ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's influential health cost watchdog called on Tuesday for major changes in food production and marketing and said drastic cuts in fat and salt levels were needed to halt the scourge of heart disease. The National Institute for Health ...

Anti-smoking laws in England prevented 1,200 heart attacks in their first year, according to a study published on Wednesday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The analysis is based on emergency hospital admissions for England, a country with a population of 49 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Move over Mediterranean diet -- a new study shows that following the Southern European Atlantic Diet may also help protect the heart -- as long as you don't follow it too closely. Residents of northern Portugal and ...

An experimental blood thinner developed by Merck and Portola Pharmaceuticals was found to be safe and effective in a mid-stage study presented Monday, with a lower incidence of serious bleeding than current drugs. The Phase II randomized trial compared the effects of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Survivors of childhood cancer who received certain types of treatment are at dramatically increased risk of dying from a heart-related condition later on, new research shows. Specifically, patients who had received radiation to the heart or had ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The risk of blood clots following surgery is probably higher - for one relatively common surgery, more than one clot per 50 surgeries -- than previously thought, data from the UK's Million Women Study suggest. Blood clots ...

Men who drink alcohol every day see a nearly one-third average reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease, according to a long-term study among Spanish men published on Thursday. The research unfolded over a decade among more than 41,000 men and ...

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Topic: Western Europe

Heart pill 'could save 10,000 lives a year'

Rates of heart attack swell as temperature drops

Ban trans fats and cut salt, demands UK health body

Smoke-free law saved 1,200 heart attacks in England

Portuguese-style menu may be good for the heart

Experimental blood-thinner effective: study

Experimental Merck blood-thinner found effective

Childhood cancer survivors at increased heart risk

Risk of blood clots after surgery higher than thought

Alcohol helps cut heart disease risk for men: study

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