The Northern Territory and Queensland outback have the highest death rates from heart disease in the country — while Sydney’s leafy North Shore has the lowest rate. The Heart Foundation mapped the incidence of heart disease and found Queensland is the nation’s heart disease hot spot with 8 regions in the nation’s top 20 for… Read More »
Drinking Diet Coke everyday increases your risk of dying young, experts have warned. Two or more artificially-sweetened drinks a day ups the risk of stroke by a quarter and heart disease by a third, new findings show. And compared with people who never touch them, the risk of early death is 16 percent higher for… Read More »
According to one report [1], nearly 40 million adults in the U.S. have anxiety disorders, accounting for 18.1% of the population. So it is safe to say that anxiety is a common mental disorder in the nation. A panic attack also stems from anxiety disorders and leads to sweating, numbness, irrational fear and palpitations. While… Read More »
Dive Brief: A new study in Health Affairs lends weight to the value of health information exchanges (HIE) in improving patient outcomes. Using state-level data for 2011-2014, the authors measured the effect of hospital participation in HIEs on quality and health outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction, or heart attack. Those that participated had a… Read More »