Hypertension

The Healing Power of Storytelling

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Storytelling, Healing, Hypertension, Personal Narrative, Health, Healthy Living, Harvard Health, Electronic Medical Records, Health Care, Patient Care, Healthy Living News

Storytelling is a two-way street. Illnesses unfold as stories, and physicians need to learn how to listen to those stories. The same is true of giving advice, for if good advice is given in the wrong way, the patient will not follow it.

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Blood Donations Urged Among Blacks. Why The Push?

Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Sickle Cell Anemia, Lupus, Video, Blood Donations, Blood Donors, Hypertension, Prostate Cancer, Blood Donation, Black Voices News

While high rates of sickle cell anemia and lupus prevail in the black community, often requiring blood transfusions, experts say African Americans cur...

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Day Six: Is Obesity an Infectious Disease?

Suzanne O'Malley | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Colitis, Yale Heart Study, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver, High Blood Cholesterol, Yale School of Medicine, American Heart Month, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Hypertension, Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, Health, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Fatty Liver Disease, Heart Attack, Personal Health, Heart Month, Healthy Living News

New findings suggest that obesity and liver disease can be caused by proteins that change microbe populations in the stomach, according to a study published in the February 2012 issue of the journal Nature.

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Former Dictator Hospitalized

AP | JUAN ZAMORANO | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Video, Noriega Hospitalized, Health, Panama, Manuel Noriega Health, Manuel Noriega Hospitalized, Manuel Noriega, Ex-Panama Dictator Hospitalized, Hypertension, Franklin Vergara, Noriega, World News

PANAMA CITY — Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who was toppled by a 1989 American invasion and later convicted of drug running, was tr...

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Using Food as Medicine and Our Ally

Julie Chen, M.D. | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Healthy Eating, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, Healthy Living, Anti-Inflammatory, Dash Diet, Hypertension, Personal Health, Food for Medicine, Food as Medicine, Food Is Medicine, Blood Pressure, Natural Health, New Research, Custom-Diet-and-Nutrition, Healthy Living News

The next time you hear your doctor tell you to eat your vegetables and to avoid fatty processed pro-inflammatory foods, just remember that it's not just your doctor who's telling you that... your body is screaming to you for the same thing as well.

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Smart Ways To Stave Off Hypertension

Deepak Chopra | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Hypertension, Video, Preventing Hypertension, Symptoms of Hypertension, Personal Health, High Blood Pressure, Types of High Blood Pressure, Blood Pressure, Treatment for High Blood Pressure, Causes of Hypertension, Healthy Living News

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.

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Million Hearts Program and the New York Blood Center

Bruce A. Barron | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: High Cholesterol, Preventive Medicine, Stroke, Cardiovascular Disease, Hypertension, Heart Attack, Million Hearts Program, Nybc, Blood Donors, Blood Donations, Healthy Living News

Two million Americans have a heart attack or stroke every year and more than 800,000 of them die. Million Hearts is a joint venture involving governmental agencies together with private sector partners.

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Affordable, High Quality Health Care: The Cure for Our Economy

Dr. Dennis Gottfried | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: High Blood Pressure Treatment, U.S. Economy, Health Care Debate, High Blood Pressure, Nice, Health Care Reform, Medical Care, Health Insurance, Republican Health Care Reform, Hypertension, Affordable Healthcare Act, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Balancing the Budget, Healthcare, Politics News

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.

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To Save Lives: Why Our School Went Junk Food Free

Meg Campbell | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Public Health, Junk Food, Diabetes, Hypertension, Obesity, Healthy School Lunches, Childhood Obesity, Junk Food in Schools, Education News

I predict the day will come when commercial interests will be similarly barred from selling their wares on school property and when students will be required to refrain from bringing in junk food.

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Blood Pressure Just Slightly High? It Could Still Up Stroke Risk

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: High Blood Presure, Prehypertension, Blood Pressure Stroke, Stroke Risk, Stroke, High Blood Pressure, Prehypertension Stroke, Stroke Prevention, Healthy-Living-Health-News, Slightly High Blood Pressure, Hypertension, Blood Pressure, Video, Healthy Living News

Having blood pressure that is just slightly higher than normal could still spell trouble in terms of stroke risk, according to a comprehensive scienti...

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Latino Churches Increasingly Unite Healthcare With Spiritual Salvation

Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Latinos Health, Cultura, Diabetes, Hypertension, Health, Latino Voices News

An increasing number of Latino churches are using their influence in the community to save lives by uniting health with spiritual salvation. Latino...

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The At-Home Medical Test That Can Improve Your Health

Erin N. Marcus, M.D. | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: American Heart Association, Blood Pressure Monitoring, High Blood Pressure, Personal Health, Ambulatory Blood Pressure, Home Blood Pressure, Hypertension, Personal Finance, Self-Care, Healthy Living News

Sometimes, the simplest tools in medicine are the ones that give us the most useful information.

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Kids Who Eat More Candy Weigh Less -- Or Do They?

Bonnie Modugno, M.S., R.D. | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Candy, Usda, National Confectioners Association, Environment, Metabolic Obesity, Health at Every Size, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, Hypertension, Child Obesity, Overweight, Candy BMI, Healthy Living Body, Nutrition, Healthy Living News

A USDA funded study with partial support by the National Confectioners Association recently published remarkable findings. Kids who eat candy are thinner and have lower BMIs than kids who don't.

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7 Ways To Prevent One Of America's Top Killers

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 09.01.2011

Read More: Stroke Risk, Diabetes Mellitus, Tissue Plasminogen Activator, Hypertension, Stroke, Stroke Prevention, Tpa, Personal Health, Healthy Living News

Most people don't see a stroke on their radar screen. A quick look at some statistics should change your mind.

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Surprising High-Sodium Foods

The Huffington Post | Catherine Pearson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Salt Awareness Week, Sodium, Food With Sodium, Hypertension, Sodium Foods, High Sodium Foods, Healthy Living Body, Foods High Sodium, Sodium in Food, Nutrition, Foods That Are High Sodium, Slidepollajax, Foods With Sodium, High Sodium Diet, High Sodium, Sodium in Foods, Home News

Your body needs sodium to function. It helps you maintain a balance of fluids, transmit nerve impulses and facilitate the contraction and relaxation o...

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Weekly Health Tip: Blood Pressure Basics

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brought to you by Deepak Chopra, MD, Alexander Tsiaras, and TheVisualMD.com Every time your heart beats, its power propels blood through your a...

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Why We Came: A Thanksgiving Thought

Mehmet Oz, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Dr. Oz Health Expo Chicago, Know Your Five, The Dr. Oz Show, Mehmet Oz, Chicago, Thanksgiving, Diabetes, Hypertension, Healthy Living News

Mehmet Oz, M.D. Meeting Shaketa and many other new friends at our Chicago Health Expo this month are at the top of my Thanksgiving blessings this yea...

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Pick One -- Eat Less or Move More

Susan Yager | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Type 2 Diabetes, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Hypertension, Obesity, Obesity Epidemic, Health, Healthy Living News

Obese people are all alike in the way they become obese, but every slim person is slim in his or her own way. That's what you might infer after reviewing the data from F as in Fat.

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Sodium Solution: Shaking the Salt Habit

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Salt, Diets, Seasonings, Sodium, Hypertension, High Blood Pressure, Health, Flavor, Los Angeles News

What's the big deal about salt? How much should we really be eating?

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Salt: Who's the Boss of You?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Hypertension, Salt Health, High Blood Pressure, Health Advice, Dr. David Katz, Health Nutrition, Heart Disease, Healthy Living News

Our salt intake is courtesy of processed foods which have salt engineered into them -- not from our own salt shaker. Nearly 80 percent of the salt in a typical American diet is put there by manufacturers, not us.

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Why We Need to Limit Salt in Packaged Foods

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Salt, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Sodium, Health, Restaurants, Institute of Medicine, Hypertension, Cspi, Healthy Living News

Cutting sodium levels in packaged and restaurant foods in half is predicted to save 100,000 lives and tens of billions of dollars in health-care expenses each year.

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Prehypertension: It's Not Mild, It's Dangerous

Madan Kwatra | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Prehypertension, Hypertension, Salt, High Blood Pressure, Health, Health Tips, Heart Disease, Michael Bloomberg, Healthy Living News

Prehypertension isn't a condition to ignore or passively monitor -- it's the first volley from a true enemy of health.

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Really, Santa Claus, It Is Time That You Go on a Diet and Begin Exercising

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stroke, Exercise, Santa Claus, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, Diet, Hypertension, Christmas Food, Christmas, Weight Loss, Overeating, Los Angeles News

Dear Jolly Old St. Nick. You have a problem: You're obese.

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The Fierce Urgency of Now: This is the Moment for Sane Health Care Policy

Karen Kisslinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Healing, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Hypertension, Obama Health Care, Self-Care, Politics News

Until the profit essence is taken off the table and progressive, prevention-based health care is understood to be a basic public service, there will be no meaningful health care reform in America.

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Wal-Mart Serves Free Ice Cream to an Obese Nation

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 000 Scoopers, Wal-Mart, Free Ice Cream, Employee Health Care, Medicaid, Obesity, Hypertension, 5, Business News

If Wal-Mart is committed to helping families save money, they should start by giving their own workers access to affordable health care. Forget the Blue Bunny bars, Flipped Out Cup, and 5,000 scoopers.

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