New device takes gorilla's blood pressure

One of the gorillas at Zoo Atlanta has been under pressure lately. Zoo keepers, along with undergraduate students from Georgia Tech and reseachers from Emory University, got a western lowland gorilla named Ozzie to voluntarily have his blood pressure taken by a machine students designed called the Gorilla Tough Cuff. Zoo officials say it's the first time a gorilla has ever voluntarily had its blood pressure taken in any zoo in the world. Complete Story...

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Big NFL players are prone to high blood pressure

Supersized pro football players are prone to high blood pressure but fare better on some other health measures than more average-sized men, new NFL-sponsored research shows. The mixed results suggest that intense physical conditioning can help reduce but not wipe out ill effects excess weight has on heart disease-related risks.

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Virus spurred high blood pressure — in mice

Provocative new research suggests that a common virus might play a role in high blood pressure.

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Blood pressure gap leads to deaths of 8,000 blacks

The lives of nearly 8,000 black Americans could be saved each year if doctors could figure out a way to bring their average blood pressure down to the average level of whites, a surprising new study found. The gap between the races in controlling blood pressure is well-known, but the resulting number of lives lost startled some scientists.

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Monitors urged for all with high blood pressure

Everyone with high blood pressure — some 72 million Americans — should own a home monitor and do regular pressure checks, the American Heart Association and other groups urged Thursday in an unprecedented endorsement of a medical device for consumers.

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Blood Pressure Drugs Lower Heart Risk

Two big studies offer good news to people with high blood pressure, finding that novel ways to use cheap drugs already on the market can lower their risk of heart attacks, stroke and death — even if they are very old.

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Good Marriage Equals Good Blood Pressure

A happy marriage is good for your blood pressure, but a stressed one can be worse than being single, a preliminary study suggests.

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Treatment Limits Bleeding Stroke Damage

Aggressively lowering blood pressure in the early hours of a bleeding stroke can limit its severity, a preliminary study found, giving hope of a major advance for treating this often-fatal problem.

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FDA Approves High Blood Pressure Tablets

Tablets containing a combination of the blood pressure medication aliskiren and water pill hydrochlorothiazide have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the product's manufacturer, Novartis AG, said Monday.

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Blood Pressure Rising Around the Globe

The numbers are a shock: Almost 1 billion people worldwide have high blood pressure, and over half a billion more will harbor this silent killer by 2025. It's not just a problem for the ever-fattening Western world. Even in parts of Africa, high blood pressure is becoming common.

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One Euthanasia please...over here.

I would really feel so much better if I knew that when suffering became unbearable I could order my last cocktail and go to sleep peacefully. I am at that age when it occurs to me it could be anything from now on out.

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Eating Heart Healthy

Eating Heart Healthy The following is a list of foods that are great for maintaining and improving the health of your heart, they include: Nuts, Seeds and Oils

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Middle-aged male smokers with high blood pressure and raised cholesterol levels face dying about 10 years before healthier counterparts, a study warns. The UK study looked at more than 19,000 civil servants aged 40-69 and traced what happened to them 38 years later.

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CHICAGO - PEOPLE as young as 45 with high blood pressure are more likely to have memory troubles, US researchers said on Tuesday in a study suggesting aggressive early treatment of the condition may pay huge dividends.

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Blood Pressure's Rising----RANT

There it goes. I can feel it. My blood pressure is rising, rising, rising... My nerves are shot. I'm irritable and carrying a short fuse. All is well, and nothing goes right. I haven't posted anything this week.

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Good News Today, for sure!! Something amazing to celebrate!

I never thought I would be writing this just now but, without too much boasting, I think I have discovered the reason why I have been debilitated by my diabetes and have had such terrible problems in the past three years and, believe it or not, it has been unwittingly self-inflic …

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1. Sex Relieves Stress

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Put a face to Social Security cuts

August 15, 1997, the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, my daughter had to serve the 7:30 p.m. mass. I had been stressing all day about getting her there on time.

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How Do You Get Your Caffeine?

It is probably the most widespread addiction in the Western world, perhaps the entire world. It's the addiction to that little stimulant that few writers, political operatives and other people that work long hours cannot live without: caffeine.

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Researchers discovered that cytomegalovirus (CMV), an infection affecting between 60 and 99 percent of adults worldwide, can cause high blood pressure. The study was conducted with mice, but researchers think the link also applies to humans.

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You've got to see this

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LADIES, how many times have you thought to yourself "My husband will be the death of me"? If so, please read this artcile for some important health informations.

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Women with psoriasis have an increased risk of developing diabetes and high blood pressure, a study suggests.

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Women who breastfeed their babies may be lowering their own risk of a heart attack, heart disease or stroke, research suggests.

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A newly published study found patients actually have more control of their high blood pressure (hypertension) when treated with less medication.

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People who have high blood pressure or heart disease should avoid consuming energy drinks, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study to be published online Wednesday in The Annals of Pharmacotherapy.

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ONE is a British hypertension expert behind a groundbreaking study. The other is a Singapore general practitioner with an inventive streak.

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Evidence shows parents accused of killing their 4-year-old daughter with an overdose of prescription medication should be tried for first-degree murder, not less-severe charges, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled Monday.

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The proteins found in cooked eggs could reduce blood pressure, similar to ACE-inhibitor medications, according to new research findings.

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Blood-pressure drugs taken by thousands could reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

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Excerpt: In today's society there is no doubt that the human-animal bond is stronger than ever.

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Huijing Xia, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Eric Lazartigues, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, is the lead author on a paper reporting that a recently identified enzyme in the brain plays a critically import …

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A study on nearly 2300 elderly people at risk for cardiovascular disease, found that those eating the most low-fat dairy products had better blood pressure, compared to those who ate the least low-fat dairy foods.

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Reducing your risk of Alzheimer's could be as simple as getting your blood pressure checked, according to a review of international studies. A decade of clinical and scientific research has found that treating blood pressure can halve the incidence of dementia.

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A study on nearly 3000 adults, followed over 10-15 years found that participants with the highest potassium levels (indicated by lower levels of sodium to potassium in urine), were 50% less likely to develop heart disease.

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