The lawsuit involves a blood test that is used to diagnose a deadly cancer of the uterus. Lawyers say Abbot labs didn't warn patients about the test. But Abbott says it did and it is the doctors who have missed warnings. If you're told you have a tumor, called a Choriocarcinoma insist on a second test, a urine test, to confirm the diagnosis. We've talked before about how the symptoms of a heart attack are different for women.
Women are much less likely to have chest pain.
Well, now it turns out there are two critical risk factors for women worse than high cholesterol or being overweight. Those two risk factors are being angry and being depressed. Pittsburg researchers have found those are among the strongest predictors a woman will have a heart attack. Angry, depressed women had a build-up of blocks in their heart vessels. One reason why is because angry or depressed women, smoke more and eat more.