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If you’re relying on electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes) as a safer alternative to smoking, a new study finds they may still be causing harm to your lungs.

EATING just one square of chocolate a day can cut the risk of heart attack and stroke by 39%, researchers have found. Eating 7.5g of chocolate daily also leads to lower blood pressure, a study found.

Eating just one square of chocolate a day can cut the risk of heart attack and stroke by 39%, researchers said today.

AN Irish-made drug used to lower the heart rate in people with heart disease can help reduce the risk of heart attack by more than 40%, according to new research.

A NEW drug to help prevent strokes could replace the widely used warfarin treatment as it is far safer and more effective, it has been claimed.

BRITISH doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart.

HEART rate, often overlooked in assessing patients, is a significant risk factor for heart disease, a groundbreaking study reveals, prompting calls by professionals for it to be routinely checked.

SCOTTISH First Minister Jack McConnell is to visit Dublin next Tuesday to see how the smoking ban is working.

LUNG cancer is to become predominantly a female disease within 20 years, a comprehensive report to be published today by the Office of Tobacco Control (OTC) has found.

The European Society of Cardiology says the Government's commitment to the ban on smoking in workplaces should be taken as a model for the rest of the world.

IRELAND has the highest death rate from heart disease in Western Europe, new figures show.