March 30, 2015
News & Features
Within a month of chest pains, 3 percent of patients looked at in a new study went on to have heart attacks or other heart problems.
Desperate for a solution, a doctor tries the hardware store when hospital equipment won't do.
The keyboard is mightier than the whiteboard at an emergency room in the Bronx, where the use of computers is now a staple.
His heart was damaged. Could this young man have had a heart attack?
Former President Bill Clinton, resting comfortably in an intensive care unit a day after a quadruple bypass operation, talked with his family on Tuesday.
The heart operation that former President Clinton is to undergo restores blood flow around blockages that prevent coronary arteries from nourishing the heart.
The government and Genentech are warning doctors that Avastin, which is used to treat colorectal cancer, increases patients' risk of chest pain, strokes, ministrokes, heart attacks and potentially lethal heart ailments. A Genentech spokeswoman, Colleen Sweeney, said Friday that heart ailments had...
Heart attacks that are not accompanied by chest pain are more deadly, more apt to be missed and receive worse treatment even after they are recognized, according to a study released yesterday . In the study, published in the journal Chest, researchers looked at data collected in 14 countries on...
1. Symptoms ''I thought it was my smoking, and so I quit,'' the patient said flatly. His bright blue eyes peered out of his thin, tanned face. ''But, you know, it didn't make any difference.'' He ran his hand through his graying hair. ''I felt like I was going to drop dead just walking to the...
A 53-year-old man sued the estate of Dr. Robert C. Atkins and the company that promotes his diet yesterday. The suit says following the Atkins diet for two years raised the man's cholesterol so much that his arteries became clogged and required a medical procedure to open them. The suit is...
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