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The Aspirin Question

Once they told you to take a daily aspirin for your heart, today you may want to reconsider.
Americans bought more than 44 million packages of low-dose aspirin marketed for heart protection in the year ending in September. The sales were up about 12% from 2005.
Well now, public-health officials are scaling back official recommendations for the [...]

Divorce May Lead to Heart Disease

Apparently, divorce can be bad for your health. So can being widowed. So says Linda Waite, a sociologist at the University of Chicago. Leave it to sociologists to make such amazingly innovative observations.
But here’s the data she found. Divorced and widowed people have 20 percent more chronic health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes or [...]

For Heart’s Sake

Cardiovascular disease is one of the major killers of people living in many countries including the Middle East. People of any age can have a heart attack , otherwise known as cardiac thrombosis or arrest, and occurs when blood vessels carrying blood to the heart become blocked, preventing blood from reaching a section of [...]