One large study of statins in people aged 70-82 years old found that illness and deaths from heart disease fell in those treated with pravastatin but overall there was no difference in mortality as rates of cancer illness and death increased.
Many of the switches we have identified are linked to changes in risk for conditions from heart disease to diabetes or mental illness.
The study said eight of the 10 most unhealthy places with high levels of serious illness, such as heart disease and obesity, were in south Wales.
Both are cancer patients but opioids are equally needed to help patients with a range of other debilitating conditions such as heart failure, kidney and respiratory illness and neurodegenerative disorders.
Mr Yeltsin, by contrast, looked trim and refreshed for a man of 66, as if he had put behind him the long illness that preceded his heart-bypass operation in November.
"This will fuel fears in Japan that could be more dangerous than the physical effects of radiation, " she said, noting that people living under stress have higher rates of heart problems, suicide and mental illness.
Bristol may be dressing itself up for sale, it will lose its two top products (Plavix for heart disease and Abilify for mental illness) within four years, and ImClone's pipeline of experimental drugs contains two threats to Erbitux sales that ImClone controls outright.
By the same token, we know that helping people eat right and get physical activity helps reduce diabetes, heart disease and other kinds of chronic illness.
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They can refuse to buy any insurance until they get sick with some costly illness such as cancer or heart disease (or even just need some costly dental work).
Doug Springsteen died in 1998, at seventy-three, after years of illness, including a stroke and heart disease.
Only two single-illness nonprofits--the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society, both far older--paid for more research.
However, heart failure sufferers may experience a long and debilitating illness - and for the vast majority of patients, there is no cure.
The problem is that more than 130 million Americans have a chronic illness such as diabetes, arthritis or heart disease.
However, unlike smoking, sedentary lifestyles lead to more than 40 medically recognised chronic diseases, such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, mental illness, dementia, some cancers.
Of all the questions sent to me for CNNhealth, I wanted to address yours first, because it breaks my heart, because it points to the devastation that mental illness can cause, and because I've seen similar situations a thousand times in my work as a psychiatrist.
So if the NHS spent more resources on illness prevention for diabetes, obesity, cancer and heart disease then less people would end up needing drugs.
He was left "very weak and very frail" by the illness and it was initially thought he had suffered a heart attack.
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Broken pieces of the brain, heart or liver could be replaced--repairing damage done by accidents or illness.
If we can help people do more physical exercise - especially when they are at risk of illness or recovering from it - we can cut the number of deaths from conditions like heart disease and stroke.
If successfully performed on Seth, and almost all of the surgeries done by Dr. Markert to treat this illness have been successful, the boy will not only be able to have the needed heart repairs but his body will be capable of training his immune system to behave as it should, creating the opportunity for a long life.
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Doctors often gloss over a key question for assessing a person's risk for coronary heart disease, according to a new study: What is the patient's family history of cardiovascular illness?
Their conclusions are that while depression is not necessarily a cause of the illness, there is a strong suggestion that it may help doctors predict which elderly people will develop heart disease.
There are tons of people out there who, once they've had one heart attack, once they've been diagnosed with diabetes, once they've got some form of chronic illness, from that point forward it is almost impossible for them to get health insurance.
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