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Scientific Proof: Crazy bosses can KILL you!
In a stunning example of science telling us something we already know, a new study finds that bad management may be bad for your heart. The BCC reports that "A Swedish team found a strong link between...
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Your job might be killing you
It's long been known that prolonged stress is tough on your health. Now, it turns out that job burnout may be worse for your heart than smoking.
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Please stand up while you read this
If you're like most "knowledge workers," you sit a lot. First you sit in the car or on the train on the way to and from work, as well as for most of the hours in between, and then in front of a...
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The U.S. has a drug shortage — and people are dying
Medicinal drugs in the U.S. are in short supply. Some are so scarce — medicines for heart problems, arthritis, diabetes, cancer, Lyme disease, and tuberculosis as well as antibiotics and crucial saline...
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Too busy to think? You may suffer from ‘hurry sickness’
Eating lunch at your desk while also checking emails and talking on the phone is one symptom. So is doing something else while on conference calls, or even while brushing your teeth. We all find...
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Science says working long hours is seriously bad for your health
Seriously: stop working so much, for your health’s sake. A new study of 600,000 individuals in Australia, the United States, and Europe published in the Lancet, a United Kingdom-based medical journal,...
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Eli Lilly adds one more to roster of failed heart drugs, and it won’t be the...
Eli Lilly lost a prized potential drug Monday after the company announced that it would be discontinuing trials for evacetrapib because it didn’t substantially benefit patients with heart disease. The...
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This Tiny Robot Team Could Help Stop the No. 1 Killer in America
This year a few mice are set to become the first patients for a brand-new kind of heart disease treatment. It’s a surgery being performed by tiny microsurgeons. The surgeons, called nanorobots, are...
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Novartis Takes Entresto Case to U.S. Cardiologist Meeting
Novartis took its campaign to invigorate sluggish sales of its new heart-failure medicine Entresto to a U.S. cardiologists meeting on Saturday, telling attendees that even clinically stable patients...
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Why Edwards Lifesciences Surged to an All-Time High Today
Shares of Irvine, CA-based heart device specialist Edwards Lifesciences ew flew 17% in Monday trading after unveiling clinical trial data showing that a procedure using its heart valve device Sapien 3...
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Struggling Novartis Heart Drug Boosted by New Medical Guidelines
New global guidelines on the treatment of heart failure strongly endorse the use of Novartis’ Entresto, boosting the prospects for a drug that has struggled to gain traction since its launch last year....
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Medtronic Is Buying HeartWare International for $1.1 Billion
Medtronic said it would buy HeartWare International for about $1.1 billion, bulking up its portfolio of devices aimed at treating heart diseases. The $58-per-share cash offer represents a premium of...
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How the Sugar Industry Sneakily Influenced Dietary Guidelines
It’s a bittersweet day for the sugar industry. The studies conducted in the late 60s that suggested fat intake was a greater risk factor for heart disease than sugar consumption were actually funded by...
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Big Data Could Lower Insurance Rates for Optimistic Tweeters
When people take to Twitter to comment on the great evening they enjoyed with good food and wonderful friends, reducing their monthly insurance bill is probably the last thing on their mind. But such...
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