Children now being born with metabolic syndrome
The Times of India Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:49 PM PDT
Till now, it was common knowledge that faulty lifestyle made Indians more prone to suffer from metabolic syndrome - a major risk factor for heart disease, stroke, diabetes and several genetic anomalies. |
Call to all to show heart
Griffith Area News Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:48 PM PDT
EVERYONE has one, but it's not until something goes horribly wrong that people really appreciate their hearts. For Griffith Heart Support Group chairman Norm Murphy that was once the case for him too. He has had open heart surgery twice, first in 1981 and then in 1995. |
VIDEO: 'Heart bus' patients bypass NHS costs
BBC News Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:08 PM PDT
Sir Gerry Robinson meets the medical professionals spending some of their budget getting heart complaint patients to a private clinic for tests and treatment. |
New drug to save 75,000 patients from stroke
The Scotsman Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:13 PM PDT
Tens of thousands of Scottish heart patients at risk of a stroke, but currently receiving no treatment, could now benefit from the launch of a new drug. |
Bucs Hall of Famer Lee Roy Selmon dies at 56
Orlando Sentinel Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:07 PM PDT
TAMPA BAY, Fla. -- A report from a Tampa newspaper confirms that Former Sooner, 56-year-old Lee Roy Selmon is dead. Selmon suffered a massive stroke and perhaps a heart attack as well, while working out at his Tampa home Friday morning. |
City boy who tried to shed sex tag
The Telegraph Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:57 PM PDT
London, Sept. 4: Film director Jagmohan Mundhra, who died today in a Mumbai hospital from a reported heart attack and internal bleeding, kept reinventing himself to try and shed “the sultan of sex†tag that had clung to him since his early days in Los Angeles. |
Montreal Heart Institute Researcher Fired After Investigation of Retracted Papers
Forbes Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:55 PM PDT
Zhiguo Wang, a??researcher at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI), has been fired less than a month after wide publicity over the retraction of two papers which he had co-authored,??Retraction Watch reports.??The director of the MHI, Jean-Claude Tardif, said at??a press conference that a hospital investigation had resulted in a recommendation that three more of Wang's ... |
NRI launches scheme for free heart surgeries
Gulf Times Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:33 PM PDT
A prominent non-resident Indian (NRI) philanthropist has launched a free cardiac surgery scheme covering 100 economically backward patients in Kerala and the Gulf countries within a year. |
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