As the month of November kicks off PH Awareness Month, Dr. Ronald Oudiz - lead investigator at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) - hopes to bring greater awareness to this disorder that has affected the lives of so many. Dr. Oudiz is a pioneer in this field, having received the 2011 Award for Excellence earlier this year from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association for his ...

( Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) ) Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare form of pulmonary hypertension that affects between 500-1,000 people each year, most of whom are young women between the ages of 20 and 40. As the month of November kicks off PH Awareness Month, Dr. Ronald Oudiz -- lead investigator at the Los Angeles Biomedical ...

UCLA researchers have found that the hormone estrogen may help reverse advanced pulmonary hypertension, a rare and serious condition that affects 2 to 3 million individuals in the U.S., mostly women, and can lead to heart failure.

Early menopause is what Leslie Lee thought was happening two years ago. "I just started dripping sweat. My back was drenched with sweat. I felt really light headed. My heart just started racing," she said. | Watch Video: Hypertension And Heart Disease

Scientists from the University of Abertay Dundee have discovered that a gene which, when severely mutated, causes blindness and kidney abnormalities in chickens, is the same as one that predisposes humans to hypertension.