Women may need different heart treatment
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Women with heart problems may need to be treated differently than men, doctors said Monday.
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Doctors are to trial a new type of heart pump to help people with heart failure.
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Women are more likely than men to die after heart surgery, and one reason may be the use of a common medical procedure: blood transfusions.
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Cape Town - It is not only obese men in developed countries who fall prey to heart disease due to stress. Nowadays, even women and children run the risk of dying from heart failure or a stroke.
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A new therapy shows glimpses of promise, but proving a benefit in heart patients could be hard.
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Binmen may treat heart attack patients under plans being considered.
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Patients who suffer from a rare disease that causes continuous high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs received a new treatment choice Friday.
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NEW YORK  - New research indicates that few  high-risk women are achieving the optimal cholesterol levels  set forth in recent guidelines by the American Heart  Association (AHA). Moreover, only about one third of eligible  women are receiving cholesterol-lowering drugs.
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Women diagnosed with breast cancer should be given a new drug instead of the standard treatment because it is safer, more effective and may increase overall survival rates, doctors have suggested.
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Even though heart disease is the top killer of U.S. women and men, doctors are giving women short shrift when it come to preventive care, according to studies published on Tuesday.
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Even though heart disease is the top  killer of U.S. women and men, doctors are giving women short  shrift when it come to preventive care, according to studies  published on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - Women with "pre-diabetes" may show signs of impending heart trouble long before the same warning signs show up in men, a new study suggests.
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For years, doctors have thought that patients over the age of 75 with chest pain should be treated gingerly, and given medication rather than surgery.
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Researchers are discovering that major illnesses like heart disease and lung cancer are influenced by gender and that perhaps treatments for women ought to be slightly different than for men.
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The World Health Organization is recommending more importance be attached to the prevention of heart disease and other cardiovascular ailments rather than focusing on treatment.
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New studies shed some light on these controversial heart treatments, but many questions remain. What patients need to know.
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NEW YORK  - Quite often, people with heart   failure have some degree of blockage of the coronary arteries.   In such cases, those who undergo surgery to clear to arteries   have markedly better survival than those treated with   medication, researchers from Canada report.