| Daylight Savings: Not a Bright Time for All (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Most people will welcome the start of daylight savings time this Sunday because it starts to stay light longer, even if that means the early mornings will be dark once again. |
| Are Stock Market Woes Bad for the Heart? (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - SATURDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- When the stock market declines, do heart attacks go up? That's what Duke University Medical Center researchers are wondering based on an analysis of data collected during the current U.S. economic crisis. |
| Marathoners Face Greater Risk of Artery Problems (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - SATURDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- If regular exercise such as jogging is good for the heart, then turbo-charged workouts like training for marathons must be even better, right? |
| Psoriasis Tied to Raised Heart Risk (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - SATURDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- The common skin ailment psoriasis may boost the risk for heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular woes, probably through a shared inflammatory response, a new Danish study found. |
| Many WTC Responders Show Signs of Heart Trouble (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - SATURDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- Police who responded on 9/11 to the collapsing World Trade Center towers appear to be at greater risk for heart problems compared with people in the general population, a new study finds. |
| Strides Seen in Orthopedic Surgery for Kids (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Repairing a torn knee meniscus at the same time as anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is safe and effective in children, a new study finds. |
| Scans May Be Misleading for Hockey Players (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- They had no symptoms, but 70 percent of able-bodied professional and collegiate hockey players in a U.S. study had abnormal hip and pelvis MRIs. |
| Hope for Inherited, Dangerously High Cholesterol (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- A new drug called mipomersen reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL) 'bad' cholesterol by nearly 25 percent when added to current therapy in people with a rare genetic condition that causes extremely high cholesterol, a new study finds. |
| 2 Drugs Fail to Prevent Diabetes in the Overweight (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Hopes that two available drugs could help prevent diabetes and the problems it causes in overweight people with poor sugar metabolism have been dashed by a major international study. |
| Intense Cholesterol, Blood Pressure Therapies Don't Help Type 2
Diabetics (HealthDay) |
| HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Two sets of results from a large U.S. government-sponsored trial find that neither aggressive treatment of cholesterol nor of blood pressure lowers the risk of heart events in people with type 2 diabetes. |
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