News for '-british-heart-foundation'

This Blood Test Can Predict Heart Disease Risk

This Blood Test Can Predict Heart Disease Risk

Rediff.com26 Dec 2025

Scientists have developed a simple blood test that can predict which heart disease patients face the greatest risk of life-threatening complications.

Recipe: For The Love Of Cheese

Recipe: For The Love Of Cheese

Rediff.com6 Jun 2024

The star ingredient of many a delicious preparation is, of course, cheese!

Should you lose weight before surgery?

Should you lose weight before surgery?

Rediff.com21 Oct 2018

Modest weight loss may not provide enough health benefits, a study has revealed.

How an active sex life will keep you young, toned, healthy

How an active sex life will keep you young, toned, healthy

Rediff.com14 Jul 2011

Sex, which is said to make one look and feel young by boosting the skin's production of Vitamin D, has many other advantages, as revealed by an expert.

Soon, one pill will solve heart ailments

Soon, one pill will solve heart ailments

Rediff.com5 Oct 2008

An international team, funded by the Wellcome Trust in London and the British Heart Foundation, is developing what they claim is the 'polypill' -- a cheap drug that can protect against heart disease and stroke.

The REAL symptoms of a heart attack

The REAL symptoms of a heart attack

Rediff.com4 Aug 2008

The heart attack symptoms include chest pain or pain spreading to the arms, neck and jaw. The patient also feels sick or sweaty, out of breath, light-headed, and dizzy. People with symptoms wait on average 90 minutes before calling emergency services, and if treated four to six hours later, are twice as likely to die as those seen within two hours.

Here's why men need more sex

Here's why men need more sex

Rediff.com27 Jun 2017

Sexual activity at least twice a week, a study has revealed, could be good for the heart.