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Heart Disease

China health under pressure from rapid change in diets

17 Jun 2013

It’s a timely coincidence. Diet is the leading risk factor for premature death on the mainland, accounting for one in three deaths in 2010, according to the study published in The Lancet.

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Lab Report

8 Apr 2013

Oxford University scientists have custom-built a 3-D printer that can create a new type of material with the properties of living tissues.

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High blood pressure: a hidden problem

1 Apr 2013

Is your blood pressure normal? There's a one-in-six chance that you have hypertension (high blood pressure), and you don't know it.

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Heart disease patients at greater risk of bowel cancer, say experts

21 Feb 2013

Heart disease patients should get tested for bowel cancer as they have a higher risk of contracting the disease, said medical researchers on Thursday. Among those who have coronary heart disease...

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Vegetarians a third less likely to suffer heart disease, UK study shows

1 Feb 2013

Vegetarians were 32 per cent less likely to be admitted to hospital or die from heart disease than people who ate meat and fish, scientists at Oxford University reported.

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A potential cure on a plate

29 Jan 2013

Researchers are a step closer to developing therapies for the deadly condition, known as arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVD/C).

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Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

China keeping its edge despite grim talk

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Howard Winn

If StanChart doesn't want us, why keep inviting us?

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Overlooked 'ugly' cholesterol a big killer

We know that high cholesterol is life threatening, but do you know which type is the most frequent killer?

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Are we ready for longer lives … and more years of bad health?

Last week, The Lancet medical journal published a series on the global burden of disease. One paper was an analysis of global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in...

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We're living longer, but getting more sick, study finds

People live more than a decade longer on average than they did in 1970, but spend many of these years battling diseases such as cancer, according to a global health review.

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The deadly truth about red meat

It's said that one man's meat is another's poison, but these days it seems increasingly that meat is every man's poison. Stacks of research studies suggest eating red - especially processed - meat...

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HEALTH

GM tomatoes could unclog arteries and prevent heart attacks

Tomatoes genetically engineered to unclog arteries and a strain of a bacteria in yogurt designed to lower cholesterol are among a new wave of alternative remedies showing promise in the fight...

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HEALTH

Donor stem cells as safe as patient's own for heart repair

Researchers are reporting that stem cells donated by strangers proved as safe and effective as patients' own cells for helping restore heart tissue, a key advance in repairing hearts damaged by...

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