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A new high definition Computerised Tomograpghy (CT) scanner has today been commissioned at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, United Kingdom, and is set to bring major benefits for the diagnosis and treatment of heart and cardiac patients.
Consultants at the hospital have welcomed it’s installation, commenting that this is a huge step forward. The new [...]

What’s going on?
We are continuously bombarded about our weight, with messages about healthy meal plans, healthy eating food, healthy food recipes, low cholesterol foods and how to lose weight. However a recent US study into nutrition, health and obesity indicates that if you are overweight, it does not necessarily mean that you are not healthy.
This [...]

Deaths from heart disease and Stroke wipe out over four hundred thousand Americans, and one hundred and twenty thousand people in the United Kingdom each year! And yet we now know more about the physiology of the heart than ever before.
Why do we still have folks dying prematurely from heart attacks, strokes and blood clots [...]

Carotenoids are the pigments found naturally in many fruits and vegetables that give them the distinctive yellow, orange and scarlet red colouring. Chefs have long utilised this colourful combination to spice up the appearance of their culinary creations. All richly coloured red orange and yellow vegetables contain generous quantities of these natural healing compounds. They are [...]

Historical Suspicion of Eggs
Poultry eggs have long been regarded with suspicion and labelled as high cholesterol foods due to their association with raising levels of blood cholesterol, leading to heart disease and heart attacks. This dates back many years, due in part to decades old advice from the British Heart Foundation (revised in 2005) that egg [...]

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Definition of Bradycardia
Bradycardia, also known as Sinus Bradycardia, or Bradyarrhythmia is a condition where the heart beats regularly but slowly, and less than 60 beats per minute whilst resting, which is considered to be the minimum normal rate. It [...]

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD), also known as peripheral artery or peripheral vascular disease, is a condition which is characterised by a build up of fatty tissues (Atheroma) on the inside wall of various arteries throughout the body. It is closely linked to Atherosclerosis and Coronary Heart Disease.
Although it can potentially affect any artery, when it [...]

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If you’re unhappy with your boss at work, it could be dangerous for your heart health, according to new research, aptly abbreviated WOLF, (Work, Lipids, and Fibrinogen), conducted by Swedish Scientists at Stockholm, and published [...]