Monitoring your heartbeat might soon be as easy as listening to music on your iPhone. Swiss technology-transfer company CSEM created the final prototype for their Pulsear device – a tiny unit embedded in a regular earphone uses infrared signals to see how fast your heart is beating. “A lot of... [Read More]

calcium Calcium supplements taken by many older people could be increasing their risk of a heart attack, research shows. The study, in the British Medical Journal, said people who took supplements were 30% more likely to have a heart attack. Data from 11 trials also suggested the medicines were not very... [Read More]

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The Massachusetts study, reported online by the New England Journal of Medicine, was halted after six months because the men using a hormone gel were developing so many heart, breathing and skin problems compared to patients applying a placebo gel to their shoulders or upper arms every day. “I... [Read More]