Just in time for World Hypertension Day comes this piece of good news: We might have more control over our blood pressure than previously thought. ...
Pat Gallagher | Posted 05.02.2012
"So what band was Paul McCartney in again way back in the '60s?"
BusinessNewsDaily | David Mielach | Posted 04.23.2012
By: David Mielach, BusinessNewsDaily Staff Writer Many people believe they have a stressful job, but a new survey shows that information technolo...
The Huffington Post | Amanda L. Chan | Posted 03.26.2012
Eighty-two-year-old golf legend Arnold Palmer was hospitalized on Sunday because he was experiencing high blood pressure as a result of a new medicati...
Mache Seibel, MD | Posted 05.09.2012
Have you ever felt anxious or stressed or couldn't sleep? Not just mere mortals have the problem; even celebrities have trouble sleeping sometimes. Maybe it's time to turn on some relaxing music and feel your body switch to relaxed.
Posted 03.02.2012
The national obesity rate dropped ever so slightly to 26.1 percent in 2011, from 26.6 percent last year, according to a new report from Gallup identif...
Michael Stanclift, N.D. | Posted 04.15.2012
It's Valentine's Day, and chocolate is bound to be around us. We love the stuff, and recent studies suggest it may be one of the foods that loves us back.
Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 04.11.2012
Here we are at Day 10 of 29 days of American Heart Month blogs. I would be remiss in not reviewing what you want to know about your heart health numbers.
Richard Schiffman | Posted 03.19.2012
If you want to achieve maximum health, here are a few things that you should do: exercise regularly, eat nutritious and minimally processed foods, drop those extra pounds -- and pray.
Posted 01.13.2012
Despite efforts to improve air quality in the Los Angeles area, the city has consistently remained among the most polluted in the country, according t...
Erica Smith | Posted 01.12.2012
The majority of us have developed a love/hate relationship with our scales. Whether traditional or digital, they all seem to deliver rather disappoint...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.27.2011
The job market is weak, and not looking like it will get substantially better any time soon. And if prescription medication patterns are any indicatio...
Red Room | Posted 02.08.2012
I want my friends to be around for more of our traditional group lunches and dinners. So I hope they'll join me in paying a very small price for a normal blood pressure rate -- eat less salt. Luckily, I got into the habit early.
Deepak Chopra | Posted 02.07.2012
Hypertension may go unnoticed for years, with few if any signs of discomfort -- unlike the cartoon character sending his blood pressure through the roof, steam doesn't come out of your ears, your face doesn't turn red and you don't swell up. Generally speaking, nothing hurts.
Eric Ding, Ph.D. | Posted 01.23.2012
I'm often asked the question, "What is the single most harmful food in our diet today?" The evidence is mounting that it is the excess consumption of sugary beverages in our diet.
AP | By LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 01.21.2012
WASHINGTON -- No need for a salt shaker on the Thanksgiving table: Unless you really cooked from scratch, there's lots of sodium already hidden in the...
The Huffington Post | Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson | Posted 01.07.2012
High blood pressure could be hindering your ability to read emotional cues, according to a new Clemson University study published in the journal Psych...
Dr. Dennis Gottfried | Posted 12.26.2011
For the sake of our entire economy, America must act now to contain health care costs while, at the same time, improving the quality of care.
AP | By MARIA CHENG | Posted 12.18.2011
LONDON -- A new study suggests that high blood pressure during early pregnancy is what raises the risk of major birth defects – not the medicine...
HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 11.28.2011
Having blood pressure that is just slightly higher than normal could still spell trouble in terms of stroke risk, according to a comprehensive scienti...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.06.2011
You might have heard the expression "You're as young as your arteries," and it's true. But keeping your arteries young can seem like a mysterious thing for many people. Now some clarity is at hand, and it's worth pausing to consider.
Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 10.06.2011
What if Type 2 diabetes could be completely reversed? What if it weren't an inexorable, progressive disease that has to be better "managed" by our health care system with better drugs, surgery and coordination of care?
Erin N. Marcus, M.D. | Posted 10.02.2011
Sometimes, the simplest tools in medicine are the ones that give us the most useful information.
Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 08.16.2011
Take a moment to think about all the close calls you have experienced -- the ones where you narrowly avoided falling. Our environment is filled with obstacles waiting to trip us up.
Kristin Wartman | Posted 07.31.2011
A new study found that low-salt diets actually increase the risk of death from heart attack and stroke -- and in fact don't prevent high blood pressure.
Posted 05.17.2012