I’ve read that if you take aspirin every day, stopping it temporarily increases your chance of having a heart attack more than if you had never taken aspirin. Is that true? If I need to stop taking aspirin for some reason, is there a safer way to do it?
In addition to necessary changes in diet, activity, and the need to take medication, hypertension also takes a toll on life expectancy.
Adding certain cholesterol-lowering foods to a low-fat diet may be more effective at lowering long-range heart disease risk.
Hospitals have shortened the interval from when a person having a heart attack arrives to when angioplasty begins.
Low-fat diets are not as effective at lowering cholesterol compared to Mediterranean and portfolio diets.
Receiving hospital treatment for a heart attack may lead to anemia, due to the amount of blood taken for testing.
African-Americans with prehypertension are more likely to progress to full-fledged high blood pressure, and to do so sooner, than whites.
Compulsive hoarders accumulate unneeded items beyond reason. While hoarding is sometimes a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder, most hoarders do not exhibit the characteristics of OCD.
Further information about a breast cancer drug that may weaken the left ventricle.
I am trying to decide between radical prostatectomy and radioactive seed therapy for my prostate cancer. The doctors say that I should be cured either way. I’m basing my decision on side effects, but I need more information about penile shortening.