Drugs as Good as Heart Stents
Drugs as good as stents for many heart patients
People with chronic chest pain who are not in big danger of a heart attack now may have even less reason to rush into an artery-opening angioplasty: There’s more evidence drugs should be tried first and often are just as effective.
The slim early advantage for angioplasty at [...]
Heart Clog from Smog - Report
Researchers say breathing in polluted air does more than damage the lungs; it harms the heart, too.
Air pollution levels do not need to be very high to cause harm, researchers report in the Aug. 25 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Air pollution — even at levels deemed “acceptable” by [...]
