Children who are exposed to pet dogs, cats or other furry friends at home can develop problem snoring when they grow up, a new study has revealed. Heavy snoring has been linked to early death, heart disease and stroke, not to mention the obvious problems of sleep deprivation for the snorer and their partner.

Karl Franklin, the study's lead author and a physician at University Hospital here, analyzed sleep habits and other childhood hospitalizations of men and women aged 25 to 54 -- all residents of Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, and Estonia -- and got responses from 15,556

Federal health officials have proposed new rules that would protect doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who refuse to participate in abortions on the basis of their religious or personal beliefs.

The proposed regulation, published Wednesday in the Federal Register by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, allows federal health officials to pull funding from more than 584,000 hospitals, clinics, health plans, doctors' offices and other entities if they do not accommodate employees who refuse to undergo training for abortions or provide referrals for abortions on personal, moral or religious grounds

The National Health Service of the United Kingdom canceled over 100,000 surgeries in 2007 due to lack of beds and medical staff. The figures were disclosed by the Conservatives, which obtained the data from the NHS under Freedom of Information laws.

The topnotchers among NHS hospitals which frequently canceled operations were Kingston Hospital, York Hospitals and Sussex University Hospitals. However, the Clatterbridge Center for Oncology never canceled a surgery at all

A person who has a cardiac arrest has a higher chance of survival if he is sent to the Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania. At 11.6 percent, it has the lowest heart attack death rate across the U.S.

His chances are lesser at the Danville Regional Medical Center in Virginia where the death rate for heart attack is 19.6 percent and 15.5 percent for heart failure

The Hamilton General Hospital will receive $35 million from the federal government to partially fund a new $91 million cardiovascular disease research center.

The medical facility plans to use the funds to bring in top caliber researchers and strengthen Hamilton as a major world-renowned cardiovascular research center, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said during a three-day visit to Ontario