Recent Posts Tagged With 'prevention'

• Heart failure care in the US needs to be improved

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 14:03 in prevention, hospitalization, heart failure, medicare patients, heart and stroke, heart failure care, rehospitalization rate

  Heart failure is a condition wherein the heart gets weakened by disease that it can no longer pump blood effectively. Most often, patients with heart failure have other chronic diseases that include atherosclerosis, arrhythmia, kidney failure, and d...

• College, alcohol and preventive measures

  Posted on Thursday July 9th, 2009 at 06:58 in College, addiction, death, alcohol, prevention, binge drinking, alcohol problems

  There’s been a heated discussion going about the possibility of lowering the minimum legal drinking age in the US down to 18. There’s also been a surge of research studies that evaluated the consequences of such a change. Recently, the Na...

• Accidental eye injuries: causes and prevention

  Posted on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 at 15:29 in Vision, eyes, prevention, risks, eye injury, protective eyewear

  How’s this for statistics to make you think seriously about protecting your eyes: More than a million people in the US have eye injuries each year. Accidental eye injury is one of the leading causes of vision loss and impairment. 90% of the sa...

• Green tea and prostate cancer

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 01:03 in Cancer, prevention, prostate cancer, health benefits, biomarkers, green-tea

  Another reason to drink green tea - at least for men. A recent study reports that consumption of green tea may slow down the progression of prostate cancer. The study looked at 26 men, aged 41 to 72 years old who were diagnosed with prostate cancer a...

• Anti-hypertensive pills for everyone?

  Posted on Monday June 8th, 2009 at 08:00 in prevention, blood pressure, meta-analysis, heart and stroke, anti-hypertensive drugs

  How about anti-hypertensive drugs as part of your daily routine? British researchers recommend that hypertensive drugs (not one but a combination) be given to everybody starting at a certain age regardless of the fact whether they actually have high ...