Topic: World Health Organization
LONDON (Reuters) - People who regularly work long hours may be significantly increasing their risk of developing heart disease, the world's biggest killer, British scientists said Monday.Researchers said a long-term study showed that working more than 11 hours a day increased the ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found 13 new gene variants that increase a person's risk of developing heart disease, the world's number one killer, in a series of large-scale international genetic studies.The discovery of 13 previously unknown gene variations and the confirmation ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Air pollution triggers more heart attacks than using cocaine and poses as high a risk of sparking a heart attack as alcohol, coffee and physical exertion, scientists said on Thursday.Sex, anger, marijuana use and chest or respiratory infections and ...
The underlying cause of heart attacks is atherosclerosis. If this occurs in arteries supplying blood to your heart, you get a heart attack. Which would you prefer, a heart attack or a stroke?The cause and cure of heart attacks was known in ...
Cancer is world's top 'economic killer' as well as its leading cause of death, report findsAmerican Cancer Society researchers say that cancer is now the world's leading economic killer as well as its likely top cause of death.Their new report says that ...
The article reports on a safety checklist for surgical teams that was released by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be used in operating theaters as part of a major drive to make surgery safer around the world. According to Dr. Margaret ...
People with dented smiles run a far greater risk of dying of heart disease than those who still have all their pearly whites, a Swedish researcher said Monday."Cardiovascular disease and in particular coronary heart disease is closely related to the number of ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chronic illnesses like heart disease, cancer and depression affect Asians as much as those in Western countries and governments must draft plans to cope with long-term costs, health experts said on Monday.Speaking before a two-day conference on healthcare in ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Decades of progress in the United States on cutting cholesterol, blood pressure and smoking are being stalled by rising obesity rates, and heart disease will kill around 400,000 Americans this year, experts said on Monday.Simon Capewell of the University ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Measuring body mass index or waist size in overweight people can accurately predict the risk of heart disease, Dutch scientists said on Monday.A large 10-year study found that half of all fatal heart disease cases and a quarter of ...
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