Leading Food Allergy Research And Advocacy Groups Merge To Find Cure For Life Threatening Childhood Disease

The Food Allergy Initiative and The Food Allergy Project announced a merger of their organizations, a powerful combination that will increase public awareness of the severity of life-threatening food Read more…

Online Treatment Service For Male Impotence To Be Launched By Chelsea And Westminster And DrThom, UK

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust becomes the
first NHS body to venture into online treatment by launching a remote
treatment service for erectile dysfunction in partnership with DrThom
(), the UK’s leading online healthcare provider.
Chelsea and Westminster Read more…

New Guidelines For Treating Resistant Hypertension

Resistant hypertension, blood pressure that remains above goal despite taking three antihypertensive medications or high blood pressure that is controlled but requires four or more medications to do so, may benefit from specialized diagnostic and therapeutic treatment by health care providers according to guidelines Read more…

Blood Pressure Lowered By Statins

A large, randomized drug trial has shown for the first time that statin drugs result in a modest, but significant, reduction in blood pressure. These effects may contribute to the reduced risk of Read more…

Blood Pressure May Be Lowered ByTreatment Of Obstructive Sleep Apnea With CPAP

Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) may also lower blood pressure among hypertensive adults, according to researchers in Spain, who presented his findings at the American Thoracic Society’s 2008 International Conference in Toronto.
The study included 394 consecutive Read more…