Turn Back the Clock on Your Ageing Heart

Turn Back the Clock on Your Ageing Heart

Want to live forever? Scientists have taken one step closer to achieving this dream after finding a secret protein that keeps cardiac muscle youthful. And it may be the key to keeping heart attacks and stroke at bay for good. Cell magazine published a Harvard study...
Common Drug Raises Cardiovascular Disease Risk 32%

Common Drug Raises Cardiovascular Disease Risk 32%

Antibiotics have saved countless lives since Alexander Fleming first discovered penicillin in 1928. But overuse has led to worries about bacteria becoming resistant to these commonly prescribed drugs. That’s common knowledge of course, but what isn’t is the other...
How Cholesterol Causes Strokes and Heart Attacks

How Cholesterol Causes Strokes and Heart Attacks

Our immune systems are supposed to keep us healthy, but occasionally they do their jobs a little too well…well enough to kill us, in fact. You can read about one example of this in a new study by German scientists, in the journal, Nature. They’ve been looking at...
Fatal Effects of Acid Reflux (Study)

Fatal Effects of Acid Reflux (Study)

If a new study in the journal Clinical Otolaryngology is right, the Gastroesophageal reflux disease is not just uncomfortable and painful, it can also be potentially fatal. In fact, it was found to increase your risk of this fatal disease by a scary 232%. Fortunately,...