New York City blacks have the highest rate of high blood pressure of any racial or ethnic group in the city, according to a report released on Wednesday by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Staten Island Advance reports.
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A generic beta-blocker normally used to control blood pressure could one day be used to treat anxiety and phobia by erasing bad memories,
according to a new Dutch study.
The research was the work of Dr Merel Kindt, a professor in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences - Clinical Psychology at the University of
Amsterdam and other colleagues from the university (more…)

CNSystems Medizintechnik AG, a medical device company marketing CNAP™, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the 510(k) notification for CNSystem’s CNAP™ Monitor 500, permitting the sale of this product in the United States.
The CNAP™ Monitor 500 measures non-invasive and continuous blood pressure in real-time and can predict responsiveness to fluid administration. (more…)

Social environment may play a greater role in the disparity between the numbers of African Americans living with hypertension compared to non-Hispanic whites with the disease. A study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that the disparity was substantially (more…)

Men’s Health News
Young men with type 2 diabetes have significantly low levels of testosterone, endocrinologists at the University at Buffalo have found — a condition that could have a critical effect on their quality of life and on their ability to father children.
This study follows research published (more…)

Lack of awareness of pulmonary hypertension is one of the reasons why it takes on average up to two years for a correct diagnosis of this rare lung disease. This year’s week-long campaign included a series of national fundraising and press events, organised by the national charity, Pulmonary Hypertension Association UK (www.phassociation.uk.com), and will culminate in the patient annual conference (more…)

According to a recent study from the University and the University Central Hospital of Helsinki, Finland, no allergy-preventive effect is extended to age 5 years by perinatal supplementation with probiotics in babies at risk for developing allergies; protection is conferred only to Cesarean section babies
Childhood allergies have increased significantly in industrialized countries during the past few decades. Researchers theorize that this (more…)

An article published in the Journal of the Canadian Dental Association claims that many dentists are at risk of suffering from a chronic mood disorder known as dysthymia. It’s a condition the Universit?© de Montr?©al Department of Dentistry is fighting - preventively.
Dysthymia is characterized by loss of appetite, low levels of (more…)