Of patients with a history of heart disease, almost half have poorknowledge about the symptoms of heart attacks, and do not identifythemselves as having an elevated cardiovascular risk, according to anarticle released on May 26, 2008 in the Archives of InternalMedicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Heart disease indicates that an individual has five to seven times therisk of having a heart attack or dying as the general population.

A common genetic disorder that has previously been linked to lungdisease may also put its carriers at a 70%-100% increased risk of lungcancer, according to an article released on May 26, 2008 in the Archivesof Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency (α1ATD) is a amongthe most common genetic conditions affecting the population of theUnited States, especially the portion of European descent.

. Alpha1-antitrypsin inaccuracy (α1atd) is a amongthe most recurrent fundamental conditions affecting the population of theUnited states, conspicuously the portion in re european descent. A common genetic impropriety that has previously been linked on route to lungdisease may also asseverate its carriers at a 70%-100% annoyed risk of lungcancer, according to an article released on May 26, 2008 with-it the archivesof Internal medicine, creature of the JAMA/Archives journals.

“An ingredient found naturally in cocoa could help diabetics ward off the threat of heart disease”, the Daily Mail reported. It said that a study has found that giving diabetics cocoa with higher than normal levels of flavanols, a type ofantioxidant, improved blood flow through the arteries by 30%.

Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of CQ HealthBeat, discusses Senate Democrats’ plans to craft legislation that would stop a scheduled reduction in Medicare physician payments; a provision in a supplemental war spending bill that would block for one year new Medicaid regulations; and a bicameral, bipartisan health policy summit set for June in this week’s “

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) on Thursday announced that CMS earlier this month granted approval of a waiver program that allows the state to allocate part of its federal Medicaid funds toward services for adult residents with autism, the

A series of Reviews published in the June edition of TheLancet Oncology discusses the health inequalities faced bythe Indigenous population of Australia when receiving cancer care.

Senior advocates and Rhode Island lawmakers have expressed concern that a proposal by Gov. Donald Carcieri (R) to overhaul RIte Care, the state’s Medicaid program, could create a “catastrophe” for 186,000 state residents enrolled in the program, the Providence Journal reports.

A new scorecard system that examines state child health performance across America, reveals wide disparities among states, according to a report released today, Wednesday 28th May.

The Zimbabwe government should integrate tuberculosis interventions into its HIV/AIDS programs, HIV/AIDS service organizations and other health advocates said at a recent forum hosted by the Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information Dissemination Service in the country’s capital of Harare, the Herald reports.