UK 'major heart disease spender'
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The UK spends more per person on treating heart disease than any other country in Europe, figures show.
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STRUGGLING into work with a cold is not an act of dedication but a short-cut to heart disease, a study of British civil servants has found.
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Doctors are being urged to think twice before prescribing certain painkillers in light of new evidence suggesting they may increase cardiovascular risk.
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The results of a new study suggest that doctors should take preventive action to treat some children for heart disease.
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Â£300m is being invested to tackle the UK's sexual health crisis after figures show infection rates are rising unchecked.
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23 September 2004 - Heart diseases and strokes kill 17 million people every year - more than any other cause - and are increasingly likely to afflict people in poor countries, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today as it published
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MONDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Eliminating the cost of medications for people who have heart attacks would lead to longer lives and lower overall medical costs, new research suggests.
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Patients suffering from asthma, arthritis and heart failure will be encouraged to treat their own conditions as part of government measures to save billions of pounds for the NHS, a report said Wednesday.
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Clogged heart arteries and pregnancy   are the two most expensive conditions contributing to $790   billion in annual hospital costs in the United States,   according to a government study released on Friday.
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Money spent on sports and exercise should be tax deductible as part of a national strategy to fight flab, say doctors in Britain who are grappling with one of the world's most rapidly growing obesity epidemics.
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Last Sunday was World Heart Day. The World Heart Federation started the event five years ago to increase public education about the threat of heart disease and stroke.
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Clogged heart arteries and pregnancy  are the two most expensive conditions contributing to $790  billion in annual hospital costs in the United States,  according to a government study released on Friday.
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GENEVA  - Children must be at the forefront of efforts to prevent heart disease, health agencies said as they accused governments of neglecting the 17 million deaths from cardiovascular illness a year.
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Thousands of people could be paying for health care when the NHS should be footing the bill, it is thought.
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LONDON - Money spent on sports and exercise should be tax deductible as part of a national strategy to fight flab, say doctors in Britain who are grappling with one of the world's most rapidly growing obesity epidemics.    Ahead of a daylong conference Thursday on tackling obesity in primary care clinics, the Royal College of General Practitioners called on the government to consider tax breaks to make exercise more accessible and affordable to everybody...
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European governments urgently need to spend more money on combating smoking, a continent-wide study of anti-smoking policies said on Tuesday.
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A handful of conditions such as  mental illness, stroke, diabetes and lung disease accounted for  much of the huge increase in health-care spending dating back  to the late 1980s, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.