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Learning the basic skills needed to save someone's life are essential. A heart attack can...

Thrombolysis is a treatment given most often in the presence of heart attack and is used...

Angina is pain felt in the chest due to narrowing of the coronary arteries. It acts as a...

Today’s modern society commands quite rightly that there should be no discrimination...

Correctly termed a 'septal defect' a hole in the heart varies in symptoms and treatment...

The heart beat is a complex occurence and involves electricity, nerve impulses, muscular...

Along with a combination of other drugs, anti-platelet drugs can be used to help in...

Vasodilators work by encouraging the smooth cells of the blood vessels to relax and...

Aortic stenosis occurs as the aoritc valve which connects the heart to the aorta becomes...

A hole in the heart is usually discovered when the person affected is a baby but small...