Obese children quadruple their risk of high blood pressure

Katie Fairbank — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:54:23 GMT

Obese children quadruple their risk and overweight children double their risk of developing high blood pressure in adulthood

Kids’ blood pressure spikes can be adulthood problem

Katie Fairbank — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:53:07 GMT

Kids with occasional spikes in blood pressure are at higher risk for adult High Blood Pressure.

Tobacco use could kill 1.5 million in India by 2020, report says

Katie Fairbank — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:45:21 GMT

India tobacco controls are not being well implemented

Coca-Cola defending artificial sweeteners in ad campaign

Katie Fairbank — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:51:16 GMT

Coca-Cola is rolling out an advertisement campaign about artificial sweeteners as sales of diet soda decline.

CDC stressing vaccinations, flu shots

Katie Fairbank — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:49:56 GMT

For the new school year, the push is on to assure that everyone is up-to-date on vaccinations.

Medical practices double blood pressure control rates

Katie Fairbank — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:48:27 GMT

Nearly twice as many people controlled their high blood pressure under a comprehensive program undertaken by medical practices

President George W. Bush cardiologist: Patient need should drive stress-test decisions

Katie Fairbank — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:46:23 GMT

The cardiologist who performed the stent procedure on George W. Bush said that he decides whether to advise stress tests like the one performed on the former president based on each patient’s specifics.

Eating more fruit may lower your risk of lethal aneurysm

Katie Fairbank — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:44:48 GMT

People who ate more than two servings of fruit daily had a 25 percent lower risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm