Silver bullet

Heart disease risk is more in wealthy and urbanised states

States that are wealthier and more urban on an average have a higher risk of heart disease incident within a decade, shows a new study

Supplements are ineffective against cardiovascular diseases

Dietary changes are better than vitamin supplements in prevention of cardiovascular disease, says a recent study

Panacea?

Vitamin E gives protection against heart disease and slows the ageing process, among other benefits

Anticipating strokes

Will you suffer a heart failure or a paralytic stroke? A laboratory test can tell you years before it happens and help you avert it

Temperamental disease

Patients who are hypertensive inside a doctor's clinic are more likely to develop heart diseases

Study links violence to early signs of heart, blood vessel diseases in women

Victims of physical violence were one and a half times more likely to suffer from narrowing of the main blood vessels in the neck that carry …

Kerala beaches kayo the heart

Researchers believe that the minerals present in the sand on the Kerala coast are responsible for a rare heart disease

Heart patients suffer massive price hikes

Doctors and manufacturers seem unperturbed by the ever-increasing price of Acetrome, a drug for heart valve transplant patients.

Can the Grim Reaper wait, please?

A timeless dream: eternal youth, unblemished by illness. The search for the font of immortality has taken a late 20th century turn into what …

Small invasions

A new surgical technique that involving only small incisions has been used for removing a cyst from under the lung

Lifting heart's burden

Heart diseases have been on the rise in the recent past but now a new research says that the trends can be reversed

Watch your waistline

Hormone replacement therapy after menopause could lower the risk of getting heart diseases, advocates' a new study

Flight of fury

Dutch greens decry the expansion of Schiphol airport and jam the main runway, ready to face trial for high crime

Stent stunts

An improved version of a device that keeps blood vessels inflated -after cholesterol deposits have been ballooned out of them - has been …

Balloon benefits

Though laser seemed to be technically more advanced as a tool for removing heart blockages, a recent study shows that it cannot be trusted completely

A pinch of salt, anyone?

If you are health-conscious, you will politely decline the offer. But what do the experts have to say?

Cutting clots

These clot busters can be an enormous help to medical science, helping those prone to vascular diseases

Singeing in the veins

High levels of an amino acid in the blood could be responsible for heart disease

Matters of the heart

Secondhand victims

Surgery for blood pressure

Surgical control

Cutting cholesterol

A new drug for lowering blood cholesterol is a blessing for heart patients

Care on wheels