Recent Posts Tagged With 'heart attack'

• Less secondhand smoke, fewer heart attacks

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 03:58 in heart attack, heart problems, smoking bans, heart and stroke, antismoking legislation, environmental smoke, secondhnad smoke

  A few years after smoking bans were implemented in many parts of the world, more and more evidence is accumulating pointing to the short-term as well as long term benefits of such legislation. A few weeks ago, researchers from Iceland reported the fi...

• MI takes another victim: tribute to a friend

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 16:02 in heart attack, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, heart and stroke

  Sadness and shock were the emotions I felt when I received this email: „I bring you the sad news that my father passed away last Saturday. He was hospitalised 2 weeks ago after suffering from a heart attack and lost the battle on Saturday. The doct...

• Michael Jackson’s death: Why it couldn’t have been a heart attack

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 03:43 in heart attack, michael jackson, risk factors, cardiac arrest, heart and stroke

  When Michael Jackson suffered from cardiac arrest on June 25 this year, there were speculations that led to erroneous reports that Jackson suffered from a heart attack. It wasn’t clear whether the heart attack theories were based on medical evidenc...

• Heart attack recovery: does fish oil supplement actually help?

  Posted on Tuesday June 9th, 2009 at 02:07 in heart attack, fish oil, health benefits, omega-3 fatty acids, heart and stroke

  Fish oils are the so-called good fat. It contains lots of omega-3 fatty acid. Over the years, the use of fish oil or omega-3 fatty acid as a nutritional supplement has become popular. In fact, omega-3 ranks among the top favorites in terms of nutriti...

• Heart attack emergency care: men have it better

  Posted on Wednesday May 27th, 2009 at 01:17 in women, heart attack, gender disparity, emergency medical service, heart and stroke

  Here is another study on gender disparity in health care, and again, women are at the losing end. Researchers at Penn University looked at 683 cases of emergencies with symptoms of chest pains and the care given to the patients by emergency medical s...