As in many other fields, emotions rule over hard scientific data in medicine too under a variety of circumstances. A glaring example is the now fashionable coronary artery bypass surgery. As stated earlier, in the USA, while some 380,000 bypass operations were done in one year (1990) compared to 18,000 operations in 1981, only 150 operations per million were carried out in the UK that year. Another related, but not so... 

The most causes of death it e been changed, mostly by better health measures. T if you die before your natural life span it will most likely be from an illness caused by your lifestyle. Despite advances in public health, Australians are generally not very healthy and this appears to be getting worse amongst young Australians. Making healthy changes to your lifestyle can help you both to avoid premature death and to enjoy... 

The pooling project data of six large-scale studies conducted over 10 years in the USA revealed the shocking truth that among the people who had suffered him treks in the follow-up period, 90 per cent had one or no risk factor atoll. Among those that started with six or more risk factors, only10 per cent had heart attacks in the next ten years. Many other studies including the recent Helsinki study clearly demand the... 

Heart attacks come only next to road accidents and cancer as a major killer in the present-day world. Unfortunately, heart attacks are the major ‘widow- makers’ since they are very common in men. Though it is impossible to completely eradicate the incidence of heart attacks, one can certainly help one’s own heart to go on for a much longer time without trouble if one takes a little care. The most important... 

The blood flowing inside the closed tubular system of our arteries exerts pressure on the arterial wall. Human blood pressure slowly goes up from the time of birth and reaches the adult level around 18 years of age. In most parts of the so-called ‘civilised world’, blood pressure keeps going up with age even after the age of 18 years. In the case of Polynesian islanders and other primitive races, the blood...