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Public call for legal age of smoking to be raised helps underline dire health-care consequences of long-term smoking

A new British report commissioned as part of BBC News' Healthy Britons poll has found that 80% of people want the legal age of smoking raised from 16 to 18. This follows a recent report in the journal Education and Health on the health-care consequences of long-term smoking.

6 Sep 2004

Australia's sunshine state becomes smoke free state

The Australian Medical Association President, Dr Bill Glasson, today congratulated the Queensland Government on being the first Australian State to introduce and implement comprehensive smoking bans in all public places.

6 Sep 2004

It is amazing how many new health dollars can be found at election time

The Australian Medical Association President, Dr Bill Glasson, said today that the Government had well and truly trumped Labor’s New Deal to Save Medicare with an even newer and better deal to save Medicare.

6 Sep 2004

Scientists investigate the ability of heart muscle to repair itself

The scientists will investigate the ability of heart muscle to repair itself – after being damaged by a heart attack, for example – and to regain function.

6 Sep 2004

Sight of a friendly face can reduce stress in sheep

This discovery, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, could point to the reason that many of us carry pictures of loved ones in our wallets or handbags.

6 Sep 2004

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the Medicare premium amounts

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the Medicare premium, deductible and coinsurance amounts to be paid by Medicare beneficiaries in 2005.

4 Sep 2004

Health Canada is advising consumers of a recall of potassium replacement products

Health Canada is advising consumers of a recall of potassium replacement products distributed in Canada by EuroPharm International Canada Inc. and Laboratoire Riva Inc. Potassium replacement products are used in the treatment and prevention of potassium depletion.

2 Sep 2004

Food agency warns against eating pickle products from Bangladesh, China, Pakistan and India

The UK Food Standards Agency is advising people not to eat particular pickles, sauces and preserved vegetables imported from Bangladesh, China, Pakistan and India, following a survey that showed that some products contained illegally high levels of erucic acid.

2 Sep 2004

Benefit of using clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for ischemic stroke

An independent review of data from a landmark clinical trial has validated the benefit of using the clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for ischemic stroke, when given within three hours of symptom onset under a strict treatment protocol.

2 Sep 2004

Smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol have taken a substantial toll on the American wallet

When these cardiovascular risk factors led to a fatal heart attack or stroke in people who had not had a previous heart attack or stroke, it cost more than $13 billion in hospitalization and lost wages annually.

2 Sep 2004

Does the popular Atkins diet really work?

Since it’s introduction in the middle 1970’s, the Atkins Protein Diet has grown to be one of the most popular methods of weight loss. Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets have been criticized by major health organizations including the American Heart Association, the American Dietetic Association, and the American Kidney Fund.

2 Sep 2004

World needs to commit more resources to treat people infected with HIV

Leaders of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) have stressed that as the world commits more resources to treat people infected with HIV, it must also intensify efforts to develop a vaccine to prevent new infections and stop the continuing spread of the virus.

2 Sep 2004

Students to be educated on better eating and lifestyle choices

It’s hard for many kids to resist the tasty temptations – cookies, shakes, French fries, soft drinks and pizza – being offered at their school cafeterias that may not be offered at home, and even some not-so-healthy treats tucked away in their brown-bag lunches.

2 Sep 2004

Study of the effects of liposuction on different parts of the body finds the procedure to be safe under proper conditions

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have completed the first comprehensive study of the effects of liposuction on different parts of the body during and immediately following the procedure.

2 Sep 2004

First study about the influence of physical deconditioning on ventricular tachyarrhythmias

When athletes with irregular heartbeats are advised to stop intensive training, the arrhythmias often subside, and this response may help physicians decide which athletes may reenter competition, according to a new study in the Sept. 1, 2004 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

1 Sep 2004

Blacks and whites have similar amounts of coronary calcium deposits, which are a sign of atherosclerotic plaques

In contrast to earlier studies that indicated African-Americans tend to have lower amounts of atherosclerosis than whites, despite having higher cardiovascular death rates, heart scans in a large, representative population indicate that blacks and whites have similar amounts of coronary calcium deposits

1 Sep 2004

The lower your cholesterol in midlife, the better you are off in old age

With up to 39 years of follow-up data in hand, Finnish researchers can say men who had naturally low cholesterol levels in early middle age are more likely to survive and have a higher quality of life in old age

1 Sep 2004

FDA approves stent that treats blockages in the main blood vessel leading to the brain

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a stent for use in opening blocked arteries in the neck. The new stent is intended to prevent stroke by treating blockages in the carotid artery, the main blood vessel leading to the brain.

1 Sep 2004

First-aid defibrillator use increases rate of survival

Sudden Heart Death is the number one cause of death in the industrialised world. 1/3 of the patients die before being transported into hospital. 20 % to 30 % of these cardiac arrests happen in public areas.

1 Sep 2004

Salmon fed with large amounts of omega-3 fatty acid better for cardiac patients than salmon fed with vegetable oil

A study carried out by the Heart and Lung Centre at Ullevaal Hospital in Oslo has demonstrated that domesticated salmon fed with fish oil containing a large amount of omega-3 fatty acids is better for cardiac patients than salmon fed with vegetable oil (rapeseed oil).

1 Sep 2004

Cardiology News and Research

Latest Cardiology News and Research

Public call for legal age of smoking to be raised helps underline dire health-care consequences of long-term smoking

Australia's sunshine state becomes smoke free state

It is amazing how many new health dollars can be found at election time

Scientists investigate the ability of heart muscle to repair itself

Sight of a friendly face can reduce stress in sheep

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the Medicare premium amounts

Health Canada is advising consumers of a recall of potassium replacement products

Food agency warns against eating pickle products from Bangladesh, China, Pakistan and India

Benefit of using clot-busting drug tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for ischemic stroke

Smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol have taken a substantial toll on the American wallet

Does the popular Atkins diet really work?

World needs to commit more resources to treat people infected with HIV

Students to be educated on better eating and lifestyle choices

Study of the effects of liposuction on different parts of the body finds the procedure to be safe under proper conditions

First study about the influence of physical deconditioning on ventricular tachyarrhythmias

Blacks and whites have similar amounts of coronary calcium deposits, which are a sign of atherosclerotic plaques

The lower your cholesterol in midlife, the better you are off in old age

FDA approves stent that treats blockages in the main blood vessel leading to the brain

First-aid defibrillator use increases rate of survival

Salmon fed with large amounts of omega-3 fatty acid better for cardiac patients than salmon fed with vegetable oil

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