BEIRUT Human Rights Watch and the Syrian opposition National Coalition have condemned a gruesome video apparently showing a Syrian rebel fighter cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it.“International news agencies and social media websites have been circulating a video clip in ...

MANCHESTER: Veteran soap star Liz Dawn is recovering after suffering a heart attack. The actress, a former smoker who played Vera Duckworth on long-running TV series Coronation Street, was taken to a hospital in Manchester after experiencing chest pains. Dawn, who was diagnosed with incurable lung ...

We defiantly are the strangest nation on the face of this earth. We profess to love our country and are ready to die for it but we would all like to go for studies to UK, and after that we would like to work in any European country or USA or even UAE, we would like to settle down in any foreign ...

  Merseyside,UK DM Brave Scarlett Crowther beams in her mother’s arms - after surviving a rare condition which saw her born with half a heart. The baby was given a 50/50 chance of surviving the defect - but battled through TWO lengthy heart ops, including one at just five days ...

MULTAN - Pakistan Saraiki Party (PSP) Chief Barrister Taj Muhammad Khan Langah died of a heart attack here in wee hours of Sunday. He was 74 and is survived by a daughter, Dr Nukhba Langah.The deceased who was recognised as a symbol of Saraiki nationalism suffered a heart attack on early Sunday ...

ISLAMABAD  – Male pattern baldness is linked to an increased risk of coronary heart disease, but only if it’s on the top/crown of the head, a new study has revealed.A receding hairline is not linked to an increased risk, the analysis indicates.The researchers from University of ...

ISLAMABAD  – People who spend more than 11 hours a day at work increase their chances of having a heart attack by 67 per cent, a study has found.A team from University College London looked at more than 7,000 civil servants over a period of 11 years and established how many hours they ...

The leader of Pakistan's Tehreek-e-Insaaf Imran Khan has said Indian troops are losing battle of heart and minds in Kashmir and there is possibility of Mumbai-like attacks till the Kashmir issue is resolved."India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like ...

ISLAMABAD – A new study shows that munching on an apple daily can keep the heart healthy.A small-scale study funded by the apple industry claims that an apple a day can, indeed, keep the cardiologist at bay.Published in the Journal of Functional Foods, the research found that healthy, ...

The Sharif Medical City Hospital’s Heart Centre will arrange a walk and free medical camp in connection with the World Heart Day on September 29 (Saturday) to create public awareness regarding importance of a healthy heart. Professors, doctors, nurses and students of the Sharif Medical and ...

A TRIAL using electricity to shrink the hearts of patients with heart failure is about to start in Liverpool.It will involve electrically stimulating one of the nerves leading to the heart, which it is hoped could shrink the heart and improve life expectancy. This is the first trial of the ...

A common heart disease drug may have the unusual side-effect of combating racism, a new study claims. Volunteers given the beta-blocker Propranolol, used to lower heart rates, scored lower on a standard psychological test of “implicit” racist attitudes. They appeared to be less racially ...

LAHORE  - Diabetes, smoking, hypertension and high degree of cholesterol are major causes of heart attack in Pakistan.A 4-year extensive study conducted at Cardiac Surgery Department of Allama Iqbal Medical College and Jinnah Hospital revealed that diabetes, smoking, hypertension and ...

DIET soda may benefit the waistline, but people who drink it everyday may have a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a new US study.Although the researchers, whose work appeared in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that older adults who drank diet soda every day ...

It has been discovered that men can inherit heart disease, or at least an increased risk of heart disease, from their fathers. The danger has been tracked to a specific version of the Y chromosome, which is only present in men.Research suggests that for one in five British males this defective gene ...

WASHINGTON - A person’s lifetime risk of getting heart disease may be much higher than previously thought, according to a major US study published on Wednesday.A single risk factor — such as smoking, having diabetes, high blood pressure or elevated cholesterol — can significantly ...

LAHORE – Two more heart patients lost their lives due to reaction of ‘free medicine’ in the City on Sunday, taking the overall death toll to 25. Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has constituted yet another committee headed by Chairman CM Inspection Team Najam Saeed to ...

PARIS - Boa constrictors can sense the heartbeat of their quarry as they suffocate it, thus giving themselves the signal to know when the prey is dead, scientists say.In a study published on Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters, snake experts at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania ...

LAHORE – Five member committee headed by Medical Superintendent Punjab Institute of Cardiology Prof Azhar has started investigating the incident of complications among heart patients after the usage of cholesterol lowering drug cardiovastin provided free from the pharmacy of the health ...

PARIS - Car owners with a television are 27 percent more likely to suffer heart attacks than people who have neither, according to a global study on physical exercise and heart disease published Wednesday.More broadly, the study — covering more than 29,000 people in 52 countries — ...

ISLAMABAD - While the transporters were converting their vehicles on CNG, the government was sleeping and now when billions of rupees have been invested in the business, it suddenly woke up and decided to put ban on public transport running with CNG.Though transporters are not justified at the ...

KARACHI - In Pakistan, Hypertension and heart problems are increasing day by day due to lack of exercise, obesity, diabetes, smoking and excess intake of Sodium. Hypertension (HTN) or high blood pressure is a cardiac chronic medical condition in which the systemic arterial blood pressure is ...

Yellow markings on the eyelids are a sign of increased risk of heart attack and other illnesses, say researchers in Denmark. A study published on the BMJ website showed patients with xanthelasmata were 48% more likely to have a heart attack. Xanthelasmata, which are mostly made up of cholesterol, ...

GORDON Ramsay has been labelled offensive by animal welfare groups after eating the still-beating heart of a snake on television. The Michelin-starred chef was filmed swallowing the raw cobra organ after watching the struggling creature being slit open at his table in a restaurant. The scene was ...

PEOPLE with coronary artery disease have an increased risk of death if they have fat around the waist, according to researchers in the US. The Mayo Clinic team, which analysed data from five studies involving 15,923 patients, found this even affected people with a normal Body Mass Index (BMI). In ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - That long soak in a hot tub to warm up during the winter could hold some unexpected dangers, a Japanese study has found. Taking a hot bath on a cold day may spell trouble for the heart, said a team led by Chika Nishiyama, at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine School of ...

PARENTS, please note - your childs wrists could indicate whether they have a risk of developing heart disease when they grow up, say researchers. A new study has found that the bigger wrist size, the higher the childs resistance to insulin, a factor which could push up the chances of heart ...

HAVING an afternoon nap can help protect against heart disease, a study has suggested. Researchers say that having a 45 minute catnap helps lower a persons blood pressure more quickly after a stressful event. And with the average nights sleep now two hours shorter than it was 50 years ago, ...

INDIA on Sunday said attempt to bring the guilty in Mumbai attacks to justice 'has not moved an inch in Pakistan, reported Indian media. It is interesting to mention here that India is demanding a speedy action on Mumbai attacks which happened much after the Samjhota Express bombing, on which India ...

PAINKILLERS commonly used to treat arthritis, post-surgery pain and frozen shoulder, can increase the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke by fourfold, a study has found. Scientists have undertaken one of the most comprehensive studies on the cardiovascular effects of powerful painkillers ...