In an effort to help treat out-of-control and un­diagnosed hypertension -- the second leading cause of death in the United States -- Las Vegas physician Kevin C. Petersen set up an Internet practice this past summer for uninsured patients around the country.

Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues finds that, owing to increasing generic availability of antihypertensive agents, the hypertension drug market will decline from $26 billion in 2009 to $23 billion in 2019 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom and Japan.

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Cindy Urso, 41, of Shaler, is one of about 25,000 people in the United States struggling with Intracranial Hypertension (IH), a rare disease in which the spinal fluid pressure in the skull is too high.