At this week’s general session of the International Association of Dental Research in Miami, Florida, researchers from the University of Buffalo will describe their recent study which indicates excess mouth bacteria invites heart attack.  The study concludes that it isn’t…

Many people dread the time changes that come with daylight savings time but a Swedish study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has found a healthy aspect that occurs when daylight savings time ends each year and reverts…

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing, polled thousands of patients with a history of heart attack or surgery to prevent one and were a bit surprised by the answers they got.  Almost half of the…

Unless you’re already hospitalized, the chances of dying after experiencing a heart attack during the weekend is 13.4% greater than if you’d waited to have the heart attack on a week day.  This grim news was presented at the 60th…

Researchers associated with the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, have disclosed promising results from a new method of treating heart attack patients when their cardiac arrest occurs outside a hospital setting. In 2004, the survival rate for such cardiac events…

It’s impossible to plan the time a heart attack will occur. Who wants to plan on having a cardiac arrest anyway? But the results of a recent study seem to indicate a much higher rate of survival for patients, already…

A New Zealand study suggests that the calcium supplements often prescribed to post-menopausal women to boost bone density may also increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. University of Auckland researchers analyzed data from a study on bone density…