School districts around the nation have taken the fight to a new technological level by instituting programs built around the popular video game Dance Dance Revolution, or DDR. DDR ... Read More

An article to be published in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology highlights data suggesting that older patients are less likely to receive recommended ... Read More

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have long maintained that breast feeding is an effective way to curtail childhood obesity, and that as much as 15% to 20% of childhood ... Read More

There is a growing body of evidence that shows Tai Chi has important health benefits ranging from increased strength and weight loss to a boost in the function of the ... Read More

The American Medical Association, responding to data that shows most Americans eat more than twice the daily recommended allowance of sodium, recently called upon fast food and chain restaurants to ... Read More

Avalide, a combination drug currently used as a second line treatment for resistant hypertension or very severe hypertension, will be reviewed by the FDA to assess its potential as a ... Read More

In a new statement, the Society for Vascular Surgery has announced that it is officially recommending three tests for all people age 55 or older who have known cardiovascular risk factors. ... Read More

According to an editorial in the journal Hypertension, "high blood pressure is the most common, reversible risk factor for cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of death worldwide," ... Read More

The link between high stress situations and elevated blood pressure makes good intuative sense and is well established in the medical literature. However, new research published in The Journal ... Read More

Research published in the American Medical Association’s Archives of Internal Medicine reports that cocoa appears to have some benefit for those with high blood pressure. This article was a ... Read More

In it's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlight that among men, "those classified as multi-racial or of races that were not Caucasian, African ... Read More

In a column published in the April 8th edition of The New York Times, Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, discussed five essentials everyone ... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration, the federal agency tasked with evaluating the safety of new medical treatments before allowing them to be widely used, has launced a new website that ... Read More

About five years ago, a major study funded by the National Institutes of Health began investigating some of the effects of hormone replacement therapy - a common treatment for post-menopausal ... Read More

According to new research out of the Cornell Medical Center, women who experience hot flashes tend to have higher blood pressure than women who don't experience hot flashes. This ... Read More

Everyone has been short of breath at some time in their life. For people with high blood pressure, though, this symptom may be cause for concern, since it can ... Read More