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The wide-ranging use of smart technologies is raising global agricultural production but international researchers warn this digital-age phenomenon could reap a crop of another kind — cybersecurity attacks. Complex IT and math modeling at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, Aix-Marseille University, France, and Flinders University in South Australia, have highlighted the risks in a …
Every 40 seconds someone has a heart attack in the USA, and according to a new study published in the journal Circulation risks of having a heart attack appear to be climbing among young women. The overall proportion of heart attack related hospital admission in the USA attributable to those between the ages of 35-54 …
New research suggests that listening to yoga music before bed could prevent heart attacks, hearing soothing, meditative music just before going to sleep increases heart rate variability; defined as time between organ’s beats and indicates the heart ability to change pumping speed in response to danger or periods of relaxation. Low heart rate variability raises …
A new category of heart attack which is not caused by obstructed arteries is more common and higher risk than was previously thought, especially among women, as published in the International Journal of Cardiology. 36,000 patients were followed within a 12 year interval and it was found that close to 6% have had a …