heart attack
heart attack
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by Groshan Fabiola - 2007-02-26
In octomber 2004, because it was found that the painkiller Vioxx, which belongs to the class of drugs called Cox-2 inhibitors increases the risk of heart attack and stroke, it was recalled from the ma...
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by Ng Peng Hock - 2007-02-26
Stress test is just a screening tool to examine the effect of exercise on your heart. It gives a general sense of how healthy your heart is. It uses a treadmill or an exercise bike to get a person's h...
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by Groshan Fabiola - 2007-02-27
Studies revealed that Vioxx, a cox-2 inhibitor increases the risks of heart attacks and strokes. As a result of this situation, this drug had to be recalled from the US market.Bextra, another cox-2 in...
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by Ng Peng Hock - 2007-02-28
Blocking of arteries in hearts can lead to heart disease. In the worst scenario, it may even cause fatal heart attack that could lead to death. Hence, when patient's heart shows some sorts of unhe...
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by Ng Peng Hock - 2007-03-02
According to the new guidelines issued by American Heart Association (AHA) and published in the Feb 20, 2007 issue of Circulation, Journal of AHA, all women of 65 and older should consider taking a...
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by Ng Peng Hock - 2007-03-01
Blocking of arteries in hearts can lead to heart disease. In the worst scenario, it may even cause fatal heart attack that could lead to death. Hence, when patient's heart shows some sorts of unhea...
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by HFN - 2007-02-28
We live in a country where cardiovascular disease is the chief cause of death and disability in the United States. Yet, most people live in fear of getting cancer and a host of age-related diseases...
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by Sven Ullmann - 2007-03-06
Today, people mistake heart attack for cardiac arrest. The differene between the two is actually very distinct. Cardiac arrest is the medical situation when your heart stopped beating. It does not nec...
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by Ethan Miller - 2007-03-06
"Sometimes it's impossible to tell the difference between the symptoms of heartburn, angina and heart attack," cautioned Prediman K. (P.K.) Shah, M.D., director of the Division of Cardiology and the A...
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by Carol Bond - 2007-03-06
New drugs can stop or limit the damage of a heart attack, but only if the patient gets help immediately, experts say. Once the flow of blood to a portion of the heart is blocked for several hours, ...