Health

Blood clots can be scary. A small piece of hardened blood can cause havoc in the heart and brain of anyone unlucky enough to experience it. They seem to strike at...

High blood pressure (hypertension) is more predominant in aging postmenopausal women than it is in age-matched men. Hypertension in postmenopausal women is caused by many factors including the alteration of...

Heart disease is caused by everything these days. Sometimes, it can seem easier to make a list of things that wouldn’t cause a heart condition. However, the heart disease statistics...

What is the MTHFR gene? MTHFR is a gene that provides instructions to produce the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) enzyme. The enzyme is important for the production of DNA, construction of...

Silent Heart Attacks ‍ Heart attacks (also known as Myocardial Infarctions, MI) are usually presented as dramatic events. On television we see scenes of people falling to the floor holding...

Inherited heart conditions are the result of faulty genes that are inherited from parents and can be passed down for generations. They arise from instructions in our DNA to affect...

Inherited Heart Conditions ‍ Inherited heart conditions are present too often. They may go undetected and lead to disaster when untreated. They can lead to heart attacks, cardiac arrest and...

  Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the industrialised world. It saturates the media and touches every family. All of this trouble from just a single...

Basic Stats ‍ The heart is an incredible muscle that functions all day every day pumping blood around our body. It beats around 100,000 times per day, can pump over...

Use of Biomarkers Personalising drug therapy works by identifying certain genetic traits, or ‘biomarkers’, which determine how an individual will respond to specific drugs. In some cases, the presence of...