http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Patients newly diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes or high cholesterol are significantly more likely to delay initiating recommended drug treatment if they face higher co-payments for medications, according to a new RAND Corporation study. http://www.physorg.com/news160146402.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:07:05 EST news160146402 Smoking, high blood pressure and being overweight are the leading preventable risk factors for premature mortality in the United States, according to a new study led by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), with collaborators from the University of Toronto and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. The researchers found that smoking is responsible for 467,000 premature deaths each year, high blood pressure for 395,000, and being overweight for 216,000. The effects of smoking work out to be about one in five deaths in American adults, while high blood pressure is responsible for one in six deaths. http://www.physorg.com/news160129857.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:31:57 EST news160129857 Can a grape-enriched diet prevent the downhill sequence of heart failure after years of high blood pressure? http://www.physorg.com/news159644910.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:49:01 EST news159644910 (AP) -- First, it was a ban on artery-clogging trans fats. Then calories were posted on menus. Now the New York City health department is taking on salt. City officials are meeting with food makers and restaurants to discuss reducing the amount of salt in common foods such as soup, pasta sauce, salad dressing and bread. http://www.physorg.com/news159643965.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:33:06 EST news159643965 The American College of Physicians (ACP) today released "Know Your Numbers: A Guide to Managing High Blood Pressure." Available for free to ACP member physicians to distribute to patients and their families, the guidebook and accompanying DVD -- featuring sportscaster James Brown -- will help patients learn about high blood pressure, what steps to take to control it, and how to lower the risk of heart and blood vessel problems. http://www.physorg.com/news159540874.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:54:56 EST news159540874 Women with psoriasis appear to have an increased risk for developing diabetes and hypertension (high blood pressure), according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Dermatology. http://www.physorg.com/news159473529.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:12:38 EST news159473529 Drinking at least one glass of low sodium vegetable juice daily may help overweight people with metabolic syndrome achieve better weight loss results. A study, conducted at the Baylor College of Medicine and presented at this week's Experimental Biology Meeting, found that participants who drank at least 8-ounces of low sodium vegetable juice as part of a calorie-controlled DASH diet lost four pounds over 12 weeks, while those who followed the same diet but drank no juice lost one pound. http://www.physorg.com/news159373244.html Medicine & Health Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:21:22 EST news159373244 A recent study by Mount Sinai faculty suggests that a gene associated with onset of type-2 diabetes also decreases in Alzheimer's disease dementia cases. The research, led by Dr. Giulio Maria Pasinetti, MD, Ph.D., The Aidekman Family Professor in Neurology, and Professor of Psychiatry and Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, was published this week in the scientific journal, Archives of Neurology. http://www.physorg.com/news158584038.html Medicine & Health Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:08:36 EST news158584038 Kim Harper started a career before starting a family. After graduating from Michigan State University in 1990, she traveled, earned a law degree and began working as an attorney. When Harper married in 2006, she and her husband, Jeff, hoped a baby would soon follow. http://www.physorg.com/news158567193.html Medicine & Health Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:27:45 EST news158567193 (PhysOrg.com) -- High blood pressure is a common risk factor for heart attacks, strokes and aneurysms, so diagnosing and monitoring it are critically important. However, getting reliable blood pressure readings is not always easy. http://www.physorg.com/news158423042.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:25:21 EST news158423042 A world-first breakthrough to treat high blood pressure has been successfully trialled in Melbourne. http://www.physorg.com/news157971845.html Medicine & Health Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:06:49 EST news157971845 Scientists in China are reporting development of a low-calorie, low-sugar vegetable juice custom-designed for millions of individuals with diabetes and pre-diabetic conditions that involve abnormally high blood sugar. They reported on the new drink here at the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. http://www.physorg.com/news157289022.html Chemistry Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:24:30 EST news157289022 The circadian clocks that set the rhythmic motion of our bodies for wakeful days and sleepy nights can also set us up for vascular disease when broken, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. http://www.physorg.com/news157210291.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:31:57 EST news157210291 (AP) -- Surgeons have transplanted a hand onto a Marine who was hurt in a training accident, and he has some movement in his fingers, according to the hospital where the operation occurred. http://www.physorg.com/news157052378.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:39:55 EST news157052378 The role coffee and tea play in a person's risk of having a stroke got a little clearer recently as two large observational studies found that the beverages may actually provide a modest amount of protection. http://www.physorg.com/news156957731.html Medicine & Health Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:22:53 EST news156957731 A newly published study found patients actually have more control of their high blood pressure (hypertension) when treated with less medication. The study led by Dr. Ross D. Feldman, a clinical scientist with the Robarts Research Institute at The University of Western Ontario recommends a simplified and more effective method of treating hypertension using low doses of single pill combinations, rather than multiple pills. The "Simplified Treatment Intervention to Control Hypertension" (STITCH) study is in the April edition of the journal Hypertension. http://www.physorg.com/news156695112.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:27:44 EST news156695112 Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is commonly associated with smell of rotten eggs, stink bombs and blocked drains but lower blood levels of the gas are possibly linked to cardiovascular complications in some male patients with type II diabetes, according to research recently presented by researchers at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England at the Annual Diabetes UK Professional Conference in Glasgow this week and published in Diabetic Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news156451086.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:40:11 EST news156451086 (PhysOrg.com) -- Taben Hale is studying the connection between the two and is working on what might be the best way to find answers for both common problems. http://www.physorg.com/news156450021.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:20:58 EST news156450021 The problem of high blood pressure has reached pandemic proportions, causing premature death through heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease in a third of the UK population. For decades, scientists have battled at length over its cause yet still cannot agree; is the kidney or the brain to blame? http://www.physorg.com/news156160558.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:56:40 EST news156160558 The landmark Framingham Heart Study (FHS) is launching a major initiative to discover risk factors and markers that could lead to new blood tests to identify individuals at high risk of heart disease and stroke. A public-private partnership has been established to enable researchers to apply cutting-edge technology to stored blood samples from thousands of FHS participants. FHS is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and conducted in collaboration with Boston University (BU) School of Medicine and School of Public Health. http://www.physorg.com/news156095811.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:58:04 EST news156095811 For every gram of salt that Americans reduce in their diets daily, a quarter of a million fewer new heart disease cases and over 200,000 fewer deaths would occur over a decade, researchers said at the American Heart Association's 49th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention. http://www.physorg.com/news156010623.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:18:34 EST news156010623 Low levels of vitamin D were associated with an increased risk of high blood pressure, high blood sugar and metabolic syndrome in teenagers, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's 49th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention. http://www.physorg.com/news156000592.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:30:26 EST news156000592 Most people consume far too much salt, and a University of Iowa researcher has discovered one potential reason we crave it: it might put us in a better mood. http://www.physorg.com/news155933499.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:51:53 EST news155933499 The possibility of remote monitoring for chronically ill patients will soon become a reality. Now, researchers in South Africa and Australia have devised a decentralized system to avoid medical data overload. They describe the peer-to-peer system in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology. http://www.physorg.com/news155810080.html Technology Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:35:15 EST news155810080 (PhysOrg.com) -- Women in strained marriages are more likely to feel depressed and suffer high blood pressure, obesity and other signs of "metabolic syndrome," a group of risk factors for heart disease, stroke and diabetes, University of Utah psychologists found. http://www.physorg.com/news155395855.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:00:02 EST news155395855 (PhysOrg.com) -- Black Caribbean and black African women in the UK have twice as much risk of experiencing severe pregnancy complications than white women, according to University of Oxford research. http://www.physorg.com/news155396673.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:45:26 EST news155396673 Rush University Medical Center is participating in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study to determine the best course of treatment to reduce the risk of stroke patients suffering another stroke. The study will determine if aggressive treatment of stroke victims for high blood pressure and cholesterol, along with placing a stent to widen a narrowed artery in a patient's brain, is better than intensive medical therapy alone. http://www.physorg.com/news155324657.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:44:57 EST news155324657 Post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) immediately after giving birth is the largest threat to new mothers in high-income countries. An Australian study, featured in the open access journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, shows that an increasing number of women suffered severe problems arising from blood loss after delivery. http://www.physorg.com/news154767601.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:00:36 EST news154767601 Awareness, treatment and control of high blood pressure have increased significantly in England, according to a nationally representative health survey reported in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://www.physorg.com/news153420221.html Medicine & Health Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:45:54 EST news153420221 Men don't necessarily need medications to have a romantic Valentine's Day. In fact, there are steps they can take to treat their erectile dysfunction without heading to the doctor or drugstore. Here are three simple tips to improve their performance in the bedroom. http://www.physorg.com/news152977749.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:49:32 EST news152977749