Postmenopausal women taking antidepressants increase their risk of stroke. Such were the new findings from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI).
"…postmenopausal women who took tricyclic …
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Not all marriages are "made in heaven". Apparently, bad marriages take its toll more on women. Not only causing women's depression but also …
In honor of February being American Heart Month, heart health patient organization WomenHeart and Colgate-Palmolive have teamed up to launch the Heart Promises awareness campaign.
Heart Promises wil…
Friday, February 6, 2009, is National Wear Red Day – a day when Americans nationwide will take women's health to heart by wearing red to show their support for women's heart disease awareness….
Ladies, we may need to rethink our form of birth control. According to researchers at the Ghent University in Belgium, women who take – or have ever taken – birth controls face an increased risk of he…
According to an article on MSNBC Health page, a bad or troubled marriage can lead to a broken heart. Literally. A study listed in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that marital probl…
Do you suffer from panic attacks? Merriam Webster dictionary defines panic attacks as 'feelings of terror that strike suddenly and repeatedly with no warning'. Other symptoms of a panic attack…
I received the following letter in my email a few days ago:
According to the American Heart Association, 140 million adults have borderline-high or high cholesterol. Even if you feel great and have an…
There's another diet book on the market, but this is a diet book with a difference. It's not all about losing weight. It's about eating healthy and preventing heart attacks and strokes.
He…
My mother had numerous transient ischemic attacks or mini-strokes. One I remember well. We were sitting at the kitchen table talking, and suddenly her words were coming out all garbled. She had lost t…