Chest Pain

Written on December 27, 2009 – 6:47 pm | by Tania |

Few symptoms are more alarming than chest pain. In the minds of many people, chest pain equals heart pain. And while many other conditions can cause chest pain, cardiac disease is so common – and so dangerous – that the symptom of chest pain should never be dismissed out of hand as being insignificant.
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Even a Little Extra Weight Hurts the Heart

Written on October 3, 2009 – 7:21 am | by Tania |

The 21,091 smart, healthy men who joined the Harvard-based Physicians’ Health Study with no evidence of coronary disease over 20 years ago are now proving by their own good or bad behavior the value of the advice they have been giving to their patients for years about the effect of weight, exercise, and diet on [...]