MANILA, Jan. 28 (PNA) – Quezon City Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte urged QC residents Friday to eat healthy and organic foods in order to avoid cardio-vascular diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.

(AP:CANONSBURG, Pa.) Drugmaker Mylan Inc. said Friday the Food and Drug Administration has approved four dose amounts of its generic version of Shionogi Pharma's Sular tablets for treating hypertension.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers are co-leading a national study to examine whether middle-aged people's physical health influences their risk of dementia later in life. The study aims to determine what role vascular risk factors- including hypertension, diabetes and lifestyle - experienced in middle age may play in the development of dementia (vascular or due to Alzheimer ...

Thursday, January 27th, 2011 16:38:00 HYPERTENSION leads a long list of important risk factors for causing death globally. Only 15 years ago, our national survey found a third of adults had abnormally high blood pressure and 10 years later, the numbers rose to more than 40 per cent. As I am seeing a fairly selective group of patients in my practice, ie. those with heart problems, more than half ...

A large UK-based study involving nearly 500,000 patients and spanning seven years found that in cases of hypertension, patient health did not improve under a pay-for-performance program.