If you've had a heart attack or a bypass operation, there's an easy way to help prevent another one: stick with rehab. 2009/12/23 |
The number of middle-aged patients with heart-related problems reporting to the emergency room has significantly increased over the past few days as a cold front sweeps through Taiwan, according to doctors. 2009/12/22 |
Humming to upbeat songs like “Nellie the Elephant” while compressing the chest of a heart attack victim could improve a life-saving heart resuscitation technique, scientists said Monday. 2009/12/15 |
Measuring body mass index or waist size in overweight people can accurately predict the risk of heart disease, Dutch scientists said on Monday. 2009/12/9 |
Taipei city health officials said Thursday that deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Taiwan's capital increased last year compared to the 1999 figure. 2009/12/4 |
A CT scan — a kind of super X-ray — provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study suggests. 2009/11/20 |
The Taipei Veteran General Hospital (Taipei VGH) signed an agreement Monday with Sanofi-aventis, Europe's No. 1 pharmaceutical company and the world's No. 3, to jointly set up a clinical research and development center that will explore new drugs for treating heart disease. 2009/11/3 |
People who were exposed in the womb to the swine flu virus that caused the deadly pandemic of 1918 were more likely to develop heart disease later in life, said a U.S. study to be released Thursday. 2009/10/2 |
Women under 50 who have a rare flaw in their immune system are 43 times more at risk of a stroke and five times likelier to have a heart attack than the general population, a study said on Monday. 2009/9/29 |
Smoking bans in public places can significantly reduce the number of heart attacks, two U.S. research teams reported on Monday. 2009/9/23 |
