Exercise tied to heart risks but don't quit the gym
MSNBC Thu, 31 May 2012 14:01 PM PDT
About 1 in 10 people may actually experience higher blood pressure, cholesterol levels and other risk factors for heart disease after exercising, concludes a survey of six studies that included a total of 1,697 volunteers published Thursday in the journal PLoS One. |
Heart Attack Treatment Program Now Available to All Heart Attack Patients
Beaumont Enterprise Thu, 31 May 2012 13:51 PM PDT
Heart Attack Treatment Program Now Available to All Heart Attack Patients The Heart Fit Clinic is a cardiac rehabilitation program can save lives and helps patients truly prevent heart attack and reverse heart disease. Doctors usually treat heart attacks with one of three options: an angioplasty or stent with medications, bypass surgery with medications (if the arteries are not amenable to a ... |
Heart disorder can't keep Deady off the diamond
The Andover Townsman Thu, 31 May 2012 13:51 PM PDT
Burton Deady hears the stories of tragedy, and does his best not to imagine if he had faced the nightmare scenario. "You hear about those players that drop dead on the field from a heart condition," Deady said. "It's unlikely, but that could have been me. I try not to think about that." |
Miracle drug, miracle healing, miracle Miranda Hale
The Daily Southerner Thu, 31 May 2012 13:35 PM PDT
GREENVILLE â€" Heart failure left 14-year-old Tarboro resident Miranda Hale facing the long-term effects of brain damage, but through the use of a special drug, she’s back at school. She even resumed one of her favorite activities â€" making scrapbooks. The beautiful pages she creates are a sign of how far she’s come since suffering a heart attack and brain injury last year. |
U.S. FDA checks dictionary on corn syrup vs sugar
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Thu, 31 May 2012 13:35 PM PDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. food and beverage makers who add high-fructose corn syrup to soda, breakfast cereal and other items will not be able to label it "corn sugar," under a decision by federal officials that frustrated corn processors but won praise from the sugar industry and some health advocates. Both sides say they have consumers' interests at heart and are trying to minimize confusion ... |
Jury awards $3 million in sex death
UPI Thu, 31 May 2012 13:07 PM PDT
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga., May 31 (UPI) -- The estate of a man who died while having sex before having a heart stress test was awarded $3 million by a Georgia jury in a medical malpractice lawsuit. |
Dealing with chronic conditions
Mt. Pleasant News Thu, 31 May 2012 12:51 PM PDT
Henry County Health Center will offer “Better Choices, Better Health,â€a workshop series designed to teach adults how to effectively become active self-managers of their chronic health conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, pain and anxiety. Led by trained leaders, the workshops will: • Introduce techniques to deal with frustration, fatigue, pain and depression. • Help ... |
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