Potassium supplements could lower blood pressure - It's official: taking potassium supplements will lower your blood pressure if you have mild hypertension.

Dietary fibre can lower blood pressure - Australian researchers have shown that individuals with hypertension can substantially decrease their blood pressure by increasing dietary fibre and p...

Dietary changes lower high blood pressure - The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet is an effective first-line therapy for many individuals with stage I isolated systolic hyperte...

Lowering blood pressure - Q My wife has been taking drugs for high blood pressure for six years, and suffers distressing side-effects from whichever type she is prescribed. She...

High Blood Pressure: Two types of drugs increase the risk of diabetes (and two lower it) - Beta blockers and diuretics – designed to lower blood pressure – increase the risk of diabetes, a major new study has found.

Damaged lungs: untested treatment - Adults with injured lungs are being subjected to procedures which are largely untested and unproven, according to an editorial in the British Medical...

Wrong at a stroke - Buried away in a British Medical Journal column quaintly entitled called "Education & Debate", giving the impression of a nice place for gentlemen to...

A dubious good deed - A story published without fanfare in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal (see facing story, this page) revealed the astonishing statistic t...