The hormone-suppressing treatment used to treat prostate cancer may bring on earlier heart attacks, new research suggests. Experts say that even a few months of hormone-suppressing therapy could speed up the rate of a heart attack by 2.5 years. But adding preventive heart disease treatment to a patient's regimen may cut the risk, researchers say.
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Blacks tend to develop heart failure 20 years earlier than whites, a long-running study shows. Read more »
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A citywide system used in Ottawa, Canada has dramatically cut the time heart attack patients have to wait to receive artery-opening procedures and... Read more »
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