Following a 20-minute warmup on the treadmill and one set of sit-ups, Beasley’s heart stopped. The 48-year-old fitness buff collapsed from a major heart attack in front of stunned club members, including his wife and daughter.
He was in the right place at the right time. His health club, Ontario Racquet Club (ORC) in Mississauga, had [...]
CHICAGO - Two big studies offer good news to people with high blood pressure, finding that novel ways to use cheap drugs already on the market can lower their risk of heart attacks, stroke and death , even if they are very old.
Both studies were stopped early so the surprising benefits could be made known. [...]
NEW ORLEANS - If you think the prescription drug you took for headaches caused your heart attack, the Food and Drug Administration says you can’t sue the maker for injury if it met agency standards.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says you can’t sue a mattress maker if your mattress bursts into flame despite meeting CPSC [...]
CHICAGO - Is it safe to have your arteries unclogged at a hospital that lacks heart surgeons who can operate if something goes wrong?
Many states ban this except in emergencies like heart attacks. But more small hospitals are trying it in non-urgent cases, and the largest study ever done of this, released on Saturday, suggests [...]
PHILADELPHIA - For the first time, it takes only a couple of mouse clicks to access information on how Pennsylvania hospitals stack up against each other.
The Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance is starting a new Web site , http://www.phcqa.org/ , that has quality reports that compare performance and outcomes of all 162 primary acute care [...]
CHICAGO — Two big studies offer good news to people with high blood pressure, finding that novel ways to use cheap drugs already on the market can lower their risk of heart attacks, stroke and death — even if they are very old.Both studies were stopped early so the surprising benefits could be made known. [...]
The connection between belly fat and the brain intensified last week. Many Americans have obsessed about abdominal fat for, oh, decades. A new study from the Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente Division of Research revealed that people who have large waistlines in their 40s are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia conditions in [...]
It costs an average of $7,000 to treat a patient admitted to a Canadian hospital for at least one night, according to a major report that found about half of all hospital spending goes toward patient stays.
Canadians who land in the hospital with a heart attack, stroke or other circulatory [...]
1. BRAIN TUMOURFear factor High.
Your GP sees a case Every six years on average. Scary symptoms
Headache.
More likely to be? Sinusitis, migraine or tension headache.
Who’s at greatest risk? Children aged 5-9 and those in late middle age.
Symptoms worth worrying about Recent onset of fits, unexplained
personality or behaviour changes, or increasing unsteadiness, possibly with
blurred vision and repeated [...]
Study touts blood pressure vaccine A vaccine that blocks so-called angiotensin II receptors, thus relaxing blood vessels to lower blood pressure, may one day replace current daily blood pressure medications, a study by vaccine inventor Martin Bachmann of Cytos Biotechnology in Switzerland suggests. [...]
