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20% of Metro heart attacks due to passive smoke
Manila :: Philippines | 13 days ago
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Philippines�Second-hand smoke causes over 20 percent of the number of heart attacks in Metro Manila, officials from the Department of Health (DoH) said on Monday. One to seven hours of weekly exposure to second-hand smoke increases the number of heart...
Tags: Francisco Duque III, heart attacks, secretary francisco, health secretary, Philippines, World Health Organization, Department of Health
STUDY: Flu Virus Can Spark Heart Attacks
LONDON -- Heart patients who catch the flu may have more to worry about than just a fever or the sniffles: the virus could also spark a heart attack, new research shows. Amid the global outbreak of swine flu, experts say it's crucial that heart...
Tags: Virus, Heart Attacks, Vaccinated
Memorabilia dealer files suit against OJ in Vegas
Las Vegas :: NV :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Simpson is suing the former football star and five other men who were in the room during the heist, seeking unspecified civil damages. A memorabilia dealer who blames his heart attacks on the stress of being robbed at gunpoint by O.J. Simpson is suing...
Tags: civil damages, O. J. Simpson, memorabilia dealer, Las Vegas, heart attacks, seeking unspecified, Heidi Fleiss, unspecified civil, football star
Aspirin cuts colon cancer death rate
Boston :: MA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Previous studies had reported that taking aspirin not only alleviates minor aches and pains but also staves off heart attacks and strokes. Taking the drug on a regular basis is also reported to be effective in reducing the risk of developing colon cancer.
Tags: colon cancer, cancer patients, taking aspirin, study suggests, developing colon, heart attacks
United Nations News: Fight against heart attacks, strokes and cancers gets boost with new UN initiative
Geneva :: Switzerland | 4 months ago
Credibility Fight against heart attacks, strokes and cancers gets boost with new UN initiative 8 July 2009 – The United Nations health agency today launched a network of leading global experts and groups to help boost efforts to combat noncommunicable diseases,...
Tags: heart attacks
Times-Picayune, New Orleans: Tulane study finds threefold jump in post-Katrina heart attacks; stress blamed
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Living under such conditions "creates a high stress level," said Dr. Anand Irimpen, a Tulane cardiologist and one of the investigators...I would say the stress caused a lot of it," said Morales, whose case is part of the Tulane study...Although there...
NBC 21 Portland (KTVZ): Aging Baby Boomers May Swamp Cardiac Care
Palm Harbor :: FL :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Baby boomers are not in good shape, even when compared with their counterparts 10 or 20 years ago, researchers warn. According to a new study, more aging boomers are being hospitalized for heart attacks now than people their age were a generation ago,...
Tags: heart attacks
Lowering salt intake could could mean fewer heart attacks, deaths
Toronto :: Canada | 8 months ago
Credibility A three-gram-a-day reduction in salt intake (about 1,200 mg of sodium) would result in six percent fewer cases of new heart disease, eight percent fewer heart attacks, and three percent fewer deaths. Even larger health benefits are projected for African-Americans,...
Tags: heart disease, salt intake, blood pressure, health benefits, heart attacks, percent fewer
Cristiano Ronaldo had a heart operation in his mid-teens
Cristiano Ronaldo had to have a heart operation to save his footballing career when he was still a promising young player playing for Sporting Lisbon, a potuguese club.He was just 15 years of age at that time when his 'racing-heart' problem emerged.The...
Tags: Cristiano Ronaldo, manchester united, portugal, winger, Portuguese player, heart attacks, heart failure
Miracle baby survives after four heart attacks!
A British toddler beat the odds by surviving four heart attacks when he was just 11-weeks old. Oliver, who was born on January 16, 2007 at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, London, had medical complications since the time he was born. The doctors at the...
Tags: Heart Attacks, at the hospital, irregular heartbeat, parents
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