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Coffee and plant-based diets linked to lower heart failure risk

Drinking coffee, and diets consisting mostly of vegetables, fruit, beans and whole grains, have both been linked to a lower risk of developing heart failure

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Heart in operating theatre

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Human hearts kept 'asleep' in a box can survive outside the body

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statins

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Genetic test helps people avoid statins that may cause them pain

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An overweight person on a treadmill

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Even ‘healthy’ overweight people have a higher cardiac risk

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From statistics to surgery to psychology: Our favourite reads

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ice artwork

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Cold comfort: How chilling the lungs could beat heart attacks

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Defibrillator drones could save lives before ambulance arrives

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Late nights and lie-ins at the weekend are bad for your health

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A bag of blood plasma

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Human tests suggest young blood cuts cancer and Alzheimer's risk

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Open-heart surgery

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Deadly infection spread by contaminated heart surgery machines

To get a new heart valve, patients have to undergo open-heart surgery. But a machine used in such procedures has been contaminating these implants

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