Angina News

Andrew Wilson MBBS, PhD, FRACP, and Annette Dobson MSc, PhD From the School of Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia.

BACK in the 1990s a drug firm called Pfizer thought it had a treatment for angina.

Scientists have found that treating patients with advanced heart disease with their own purified and potent stem cells can reduce symptoms of angina and fatigue.

The first drug in the algorithm for unstable angina is oxygen. The second is nitroglycerin.

Generic drugmaker Par Pharmaceutical Companies Inc. said Friday its profit surged in the third quarter on a boost in product sales.

You can hardly watch television these days without seeing commercials for statin drugs such as Lipitor and Zocor.

In this factsheet: The Facts on Heart Attack The heart is one of the largest muscles in the body.

His coworkers are afraid he is having a heart attack and try to convince him to go to the hospital.

Evidence from clinical trials now indicates that in patients with stable angina, medical treatment can be as effective as the more invasive treatments we hear so much about, treatments like bypass surgery , angioplasty and stents .

The FTC and FDA are terrorizing Dr. Andrew Weil over his true statements about the immune-boosting properties of astragalus.

Four pharmaceutical companies will pay a total of $124 million nationally including $3.5 million to North Carolina as part of a major Medicaid fraud case, Attorney General Roy Cooper announced today.

During the past decade, heart researchers have conducted studies on heart attack victims to find the habits of these people.

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It's not unusual for people to feel a pain directly behind their breastbone and think that it can't be their heart, since everyone knows that lies to the left side of the chest.

Though many arrhythmias require no treatment whatsoever, read on to find out how they can be detected, and what treatments may be needed.

Cardiogenesis Corporation , a market leader in laser transmyocardial revascularization , today announced that it sponsored an educational symposium yesterday in conjunction with the 21st Annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting in San Francisco.

Main Category: Stroke Also Included In: Heart Disease ; Cardiovascular / Cardiology Article Date: 22 Sep 2009 - 0:00 PDT At age 76, Jackie Guild, a survivor of multiple heart attacks and strokes , has a new spring in her step and blush on her cheeks, thanks to the persistence of her daughter and ardent medical advocate, Donna Dellaganna.

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Martin Winn's cholesterol level was inching up. Cycling up hills, he felt chest pain that might have been angina.

Many people with chronic angina experience frequent chest pain that affects their quality of life, a new study finds.