United Therapeutics Corp. said Thursday its profit nearly doubled in the second quarter on better sales of its pulmonary arterial hypertension drugs.

SILVER SPRING, Md., July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Furthering their efforts to provide support to pulmonary hypertension (PH) patients, the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) has entered into a partnership with MedicAlert Foundation that will offer PHA members a discount on MedicAlert membership. By joining MedicAlert, PHA members will benefit from MedicAlert's unique, live 24/7 ...

Contact: Jillian Megee, MedicAlert Foundation, Media Relations, +1-209-669-2460 (office), jmegee@medicalert.org; or Emma Bonanomi, Pulmonary Hypertension Association, Associate Director, Patient Outreach & Services, +1-240-485-0777 (office), Emma@PHAssociation.org

Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, chair of the subcommittee on the International Criminal Court, was truly ill with hypertension, when she arrived at the Senate on Thursday.

A new study shows the prevalence of gout in the United States has risen over the last twenty years and now affects 8.3 million Americans. Prevalence of increased uric acid levels (hyperuricemia) also rose, affecting 43.3 million adults in the U.S. Greater frequency of obesity and hypertension may be associated with the jump in prevalence rates, according to the findings.