Twitter may open door to people's thoughts on heart health Twitter may be a rich vein researchers can mine for data on what people think and say about cardiovascular disease, according to a new study.
Old heart device wires tied to complications, death risk Patients with pacemakers and defibrillators are about twice as likely to have minor and life-threatening complications when having them removed if old wiring was left behind in earlier procedures to replace or upgrade devices, a U.S. study suggests.
Treatment could lower crash risk for truckers with sleep apnea Commercial truck drivers who get treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) for two years may reduce their crash risk to the level of drivers without apnea, a study from Italy suggests.
Task force advises routine preeclampsia screening in pregnancy Pregnant women should get routine blood pressure checks at every prenatal visit to screen for preeclampsia, according to new proposed U.S. guidelines aimed at preventing deaths from this complication.
WHO: Excessive air pollution affects 92 percent of people More than nine out of 10 people worldwide live in areas with excessive air pollution, contributing to problems like strokes, heart disease and lung cancer, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
Docs dig for patients' personal info to better predict health outcomes The race is on to develop better ways to predict if patients will develop diabetes, heart disease or other critical conditions.
Maternal instinct leads to baby's life-saving open heart surgery When Phoebe Harrington and her husband, Benjamin Dumas, welcomed their newborn Benji in 2015, they believed he was born perfectly healthy but soon noticed something was awry.
Doctors 'prescribe' fresh produce with help from food banks The idea is simple: Load fresh fruits and vegetables into a refrigerator truck and drive it to a health clinic, then have a doctor write a "prescription" for food to improve the diets of low-income people with diabetes and high blood pressure.
4-year-old saves grandfather after he has heart attack Lyric Knighten, 4, was just trying to play with his grandpa when he jumped on the sleeping man’s stomach and said, “Wake up! Wake up!” Luckily, the older man did— and took himself to the ER with chest pains due to a massive heart attack.
Zuckerberg, Chan pledge $3B to end disease Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a goal that's even more ambitious than connecting the entire world to the internet: He and his wife want to help eradicate all disease by the end of this century.
