Hearth Health: Hot flashes at younger age signal greater cardiovascular risk ♦ Energy drinks raise resting blood pressure ♦ Risk of death from acute coronary syndrome + more

Hot flashes at younger age may signal greater cardiovascular risk  Women who experience hot flashes earlier in life appear to have poorer endothelial function -- the earliest sign of cardiovascular disease -- than women who have hot flashes later in life or not at all, Continue Reading

Women don't get to hospital fast enough during heart attack  Women suffering a heart attack wait much longer than men to call emergency medical services and face significantly longer delays getting to a hospital equipped to care for them, putting women at greater risk for adverse outcomes.Continue Reading

Have a sense of purpose in life? It may protect your heart  Having a high sense of purpose in life may lower your risk of heart disease and stroke, according to a new study.Continue Reading

Physicians, patients overestimate risk of death from acute coronary syndrome Both physicians and patients overestimate the risk of heart attack or death for possible acute coronary syndrome (ACS) as well as the potential benefit of hospital admission for possible ACS, a survey of patient and physician communication and risk assessment shows.Continue Reading

Energy drinks raise resting blood pressure, with effect most dramatic in those not used to caffeine  Healthy young adults who don’t consume caffeine regularly experienced greater rise in resting blood pressure after consumption of a commercially available energy drink — compared to a placebo drink — thus raising the concern that energy drinks may increase the risk of cardiac events Continue Reading

6/28/14 Health News:Dangerous Are Energy Drinks ♦ Pain-relief cream caused a baby's death ♦ SEAFOOD GUIDANCE FROM THE FDA MAY NOT PROTECT CONSUMERS ♦ After Drug Resistance

Just How Dangerous Are Energy Drinks, Anyway?

After a day of sipping energy drinks on the beach in Rocky Point, Mexico, 16-year-old Lanna Hamann went into cardiac arrest and died on June 14.While the cause of Hamann’s death is still unknown, the potential dangers of caffeinated energy drinks like Red Bull, Monster and Rock Star have public health advocates worried -- and for good reason. Continue Reading

Pain-relief cream concoction, part of a $25M scam, inadvertently caused a baby's death

Southern California doctors were bribed to prescribe a pain-relief concoction as part of a $25 million workers' compensation scam that inadvertently caused a baby's death, according to indictments.Continue Reading

LATEST SEAFOOD GUIDANCE FROM THE FDA MAY NOT PROTECT CONSUMERS

Consumer advocates are concerned that the recently updated federal guidance encouraging pregnant women, nursing mothers and children to consume two to three servings of fish and shellfish a week oversimplifies its species recommendations. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) and the Mercury Policy Project (MPP), along with mercury researcher Philippe Grandjean, think that the Food and Drug Administration... Continue Reading

After Drug Resistance: The Alamo Today

San Antonio de Valero is a former Roman Catholic mission and fortress where the Battle of the Alamo occurred from February 23 until March 6, 1836. Now known simply as the Alamo, this compound has been damaged, ransacked, and renovated many times before work on its present configuration as a museum in downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA, was completed in 1968. Continue Reading