Cardiovascular Diseases

Heart attacks halved by daily 'polypill', strokes reduced too – study

The cheap combo tablet contained two blood pressure drugs, a cholesterol medicine and aspirin. Researchers said the study could be a gamechanger, especially in poor countries and for people who don't stick to a multi-tablet regimen.

WHO reveals 1.4 billion people risk disease from lack of exercise

With richer nations enjoying an increasingly comfortable, sedentary lifestyle, the study says a third of women and a quarter of men worldwide are in the firing line for killer conditions unless they up their physical activity.