Stress seems to produce biochemical changes A stressful job has a direct biological impact on the body, raising the risk of heart disease, research has indicated. The study reported in the ...

Montreal, January 20, 2008 – An international consortium of clinical scientists and genomics experts, including researchers from the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) and Université de Montréal (UdeM), ...

An observational study of elderly diabetes patients provides further evidence that treatment with the antidiabetic rosiglitazone is associated with an increased risk for ischemic cardiovascular ...

ABSTRACT Aims: The aim of this paper is to review the literature concerning the existence of prestige hierarchies for medical specialities and diseases. Moreover, the implications of prestige for ...

GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to place a "black-box" heart-attack warning on the label of its Avandia diabetes drug.  The label will note that an analysis indicated the drug was "associated with ...

A pain screening method widely used in US primary care settings is doing a poor job of identifying patients with serious pain, a new study suggests. "It seemed to miss quite a few people, and it also ...

A new study shows that use of the pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) decreased by 65% in the US between 1993 and 2004 [1]. This is likely the result of growing evidence that this invasive procedure ...