(AFX UK Focus) 2009-05-30 20:34 Hormone therapy lifts lung cancer death risk-study
Interactive Investor Sat, 30 May 2009 13:00 PM PDT
ORLANDO, Fla., May 30 (Reuters) - The use of hormone-replacement therapy by menopausal women increases their risk of death from lung cancer by 60 percent after five years, U.S. researchers reported on Saturday. Doctors once thought that hormone therapy, or HRT, could protect women from chronic diseases, especially heart disease. But use of the drugs plunged after 2002 when the large Women's ... |
World Heart Federation Warns that Burden of Tobacco Epidemic Continues to Worsen Societies and Economies
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Sat, 30 May 2009 13:00 PM PDT
G-20 leaders pledged to provide the International Monetary Fund with $500 billion to help struggling economies, sparking global controversy. Yet startling research shows that the combined costs of tobacco-related death and related productivity losses, healthcare expenditures, employee absenteeism, and widespread environmental harm are responsible for draining the same amount - $500 billion - ... |
Lower your risk for diabetes and heart disease
Sparta Expositor Sat, 30 May 2009 10:31 AM PDT
During a typical day, your blood pressure goes up and down, and that’s healthy. For about 65 million Americans, however, blood pressure remains high over time. Are you one of them? |
Still beating strongly
Paragould Daily Press Sat, 30 May 2009 10:29 AM PDT
RECTOR  There was something wrong with Tom Wagster’s body. He changed a tire, and it wore him out so badly he slept eight hours. Constantly short of breath, the 40-year-old went to the doctor. Soon afterward, he had a heart transplant. |
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