The most common formulation of birth control pills has been linked to a doubling of relative risk of heart attack and stroke, ...

After adjusting for factors such as age, education, high blood pressure and diabetes, researchers linked the estrogen-progestin pill — known colloquially as the birth control pill — to twice the risk ...

Most contraceptives, including the widely-used combined pill, could double women's risk of heart attacks and strokes, ...

A simple scoring system could revolutionize how doctors prevent heart attacks and strokes by identifying patients most likely ...

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The doctor became a patient after ignoring his own heart attack symptoms. He's urging others not to make the same mistake.

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The challenges of translating neuroprotective interventions with promising efficacy in animal studies into effective treatments for patients with stroke are well documented, with issues including ...

While recovering from open heart surgery in 2021, Chicago-based artist Shar Coulson experienced trippy visions that ...