Each year Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Heart Hospital performs more than 1,000 acute coronary surgeries on patients with a ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI), commonly known as a heart attack.

Young smokers are eight times more likely to have a major heart attack compared to non-smokers, said a senior official of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).

An Indian expatriate who travelled to Mumbai recently died after suffering a cardiac arrest during his journey.

The team collected data on heart attack patients in Sweden, and their physical activity levels as reported six to 10 weeks or 12 months after the event.

The anti-cholesterol drug Praluent (alirocumab), made by France's Sanofi Pharmaceuticals, is linked to a 15 percent lower risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke, a study said Saturday.

While both men and women may share many of the same symptoms of a heart attack, a woman's experience can be very different from a man's and women are more often misdiagnosed.

"If someone smokes one cigarette instead of 20 per day, intuitively we'd think that the risk drops to 1/20, or 5%," said lead author Allan Hackshaw, a professor at University College London.

Britain's disgraced celebrity publicist Max Clifford, once the king of tabloid kiss-and-tell stories, died on Sunday, having reportedly suffered a heart attack following a sudden collapse.

Slim Chaker, 56, fell ill after running some 500 metres and then making a speech at the start of a race in the coastal town of Nabeul aimed at raising funds to build a clinic for children with cancer.

The Rodrigo Duterte administration’s “trademark impunity” appeared to have reached the judiciary with the Sandiganbayan’s order to release former Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, Sen. Leila de Lima said.

Theresa May has refused to rule out a rise in income tax if she is returned to power in the General Election.

ChemChina has won more than enough support from Syngenta shareholders to clinch its $43bn takeover of the Swiss pesticides and seeds group, the two companies said yesterday.