Heart attacks - An ounce of prevention - The latest research shows that all the aggressive drugs and surgery thrown at heart attack victims is far less effective than comprehensive change of...

Salt may have no role in high blood pressure - Reducing salt in your diet will not help lessen the risks of high blood pressure, stroke and heart attack. The long cherished belief that salt was a m...

High blood pressure - The high incidence of hypertension high blood pressure in the West and its virtual absence in many developing countries has been attributed to a numbe...

High Blood Pressure: If you want to know the truth, test it at night - You go to the doctor’s surgery to have your blood pressure checked – and it’s dangerously high. Does this mean you’re an immediate candidate for an an...

Hypertensives: heart attacks - One of the most popular drugs for treating high blood pressure actually raises the risk of a heart attack by 60 per cent. ...

High blood pressure: - There was plenty of advice for the reader who is taking the drug Atenolol for her high blood pressure. The drug is affecting her quality of life, and...

High blood pressure drugs overprescribed - Drugs for high blood pressure may be overprescribed, if the results of a review of the latest way of measuring hypertension are anything to go by. ...

High blood pressure: - A reader last time suggested using parts of the hawthorn bush, but another reader this time says the berries are the only effective part. Ayurvedic m...