Heart patients with pacemakers have a hard life, as they constantly live with a fear lurking in the back of their mind: what if the pacemaker goes haywire? Carol Kasyjanski is one such woman with a severe heart condition and the only thing that...

If you have recently suffered from a severe heart attack or angina, and certain complications cropped up following it, don’t be surprised if your doctor prescribe you some ‘antidepressant’ doses as curative measures - irrespective...

Controversial drug Trasylol that is used world-wide as a heart-surgery medicine is once again amid controversies, as a new study holds Trasylol responsible for long-term risk of dying by nearly 50%. In the words of Dr. Dennis T. Mangano of...

For years we have been listening, that exercise is good for heart, despite the fact that there has never been an intensive study to give out a solid reason to vindicate this notion. However, now researchers are planning to have a profound study...

Millions of people across the world are surviving with pacemakers and defibrillators. Thanks to the advancement of medical science. But, the question arises on what happens to these devices after their owners’ demise? The answer is simply...

Torcetrapib is a new drug that has specially been made by drug manufacturer company, Pfizer to increase the level of ‘good’ cholesterol. Whereas it can be good news for the heart patients it can also be bad one since, because company...

Statin may be helpful in keeping up health of the hearts of heart patients; a new study has promulgated this fact after studying about 24,000 adults with heart failure. Actually, Statins are a class of cholesterol lowering drugs that are given...

Heart patients and patients of other medical complications might be affected from Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The August issue of the Harvard Heart Letter, has come out with the research saying this. The earlier conception was that only...