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Most heart attacks aren’t like in the movies – sudden and intense. Usually, they start slowly, with mild pain or discomfort.Here are the most common signs of a heart attack or heart disease that could lead to one.
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 drug could prevent up to 10,000 deaths a year in the UK and described [...]
A study of HIV infected African women found that daily doses of multivitamins appear to slow down the disease and cut the risk of developing AIDS in half.
The researchers who conducted the study in Tanzania suggested that vitamin supplements could be used in developing countries to delay the need for AIDS drugs, saving them [...]
Men with prostate cancer who have not responded to conventional treatments may benefit from supplements containing a modified form of a fruit ingredient, preliminary research suggests.
After 13 men with prostate cancer that did not respond to conventional treatment tried supplements containing modified fruit pectin (MCP) for 12 months, 7 of the 10 men who [...]
Vitamin C can help block the growth of cancer cells, found New Zealand researchers—a feat that could be quickly adopted into cancer treatment.
After much controversy over the role of vitamin C in cancer treatment, a team from Otago University at Christchurch have now shown that it has a role in controlling tumour growth.
They have said [...]
Vaccine patch could cut out the need for painful needles and boost the effectiveness of immunisation against diseases like flu, say US researchers.
The patch has hundreds of microscopic needles which dissolve into the skin.
Tests in mice show the technology may even produce a better immune response than a conventional jab.
Writing in Nature Medicine, the team [...]
Everything under the sun has been linked to obesity. Now the sun itself, or the lack of it, is being blamed for people being fatty.
A team of scientists at Aberdeen University has found that Scotland’s dismal weather makes it more difficult for people to shed those extra pounds. Their research suggests that overweight people tend [...]
Tomatoes, earlier known to protect against various cancers, could also prevent heart attacks and strokes, say scientists.
A pigment called Lycopene, which gives tomatoes their red colour, is known to protect against various cancers. Scientists have now found anti-clotting properties in the yellow fluid surrounding the seeds, reported the online edition of the Daily Mail.
According to [...]
Hassles at work do not shoot up blood pressure, say scientists, dismissing notions that job stress lead to high blood pressure and hypertension.
Samuel J. Mann, professor of clinical medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, reviewed dozens of studies on the subject and found that the evidence that workplace stress has a lasting effect [...]
It is possible the findings could apply to the human diet an early diet of junk food makes it harder to fight off the effects of ageing, scientists have found.
The discovery, by scientists at Glasgow University, applies to zebra finches but experts believe the same could apply to humans.
Scientists found that birds with [...]
