National guidelines say patients undergoing heart attacks should receive balloon angioplasties as soon as possible, or within 90 minutes of arriving at the hospital.Now, some hospitals are striving to reduce such door-to-balloon times to less 60

The growing number of Americans with cardiovascular disease has caused a heightened sensitivity in the evaluation of chest pain.In a study published in the April issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings journal, researchers reported that patients to

Doctors and patients have varying opinions on how much control a person has over their own health outcomes. A new study by University of Iowa researchers suggests that when doctor and patient attitudes on the issue match up, patients do a better of

Decades of progress may have earned women their place at the office, but haven't won them an equal partnership in the home, and that puts hard-working women at a distinct disadvantage to their male peers.Youngjoo Cha, Cornell doctoral candidate

Workers whose occupations involve contact with pesticides appear to have an increased risk of having Parkinson's disease, says a report published in the medical journal Archives of Neurology.The development of Parkinson's disease related to was

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, in Winston-Salem, N.C., claims that a new study by researchers there is the first to refute the widely held belief that intentional weight loss in older adults leads to increased risk of death.In or

The risk of dying from injuries is increasing for Americans ages 65 and older, says a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research & Policy, in Baltimore.The report found significant increases a

A new study demonstrates that acupuncture may be an effective therapy for joint pain and stiffness in breast cancer patients who are being treated with commonly used hormonal therapies. The study, led by researchers at the Herbert Irving Cancer

Low doses of the medication lasofoxifene can reduce the risk of vertebral and non-vertebral fractures, breast cancer, coronary heart disease, and stroke in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, says a new study published in a recent issue of the

Postmenopausal women who have been newly diagnosed with cancer in one breast have higher cancer detection rates, compared with premenopausal women, when the other breast is scanned for tumors with MRI, say researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in a