Long thought to be a problem only for high income countries, now 80% of deaths connected to high blood pressure (HBP) occur in the developing world. These are the conclusions of authors of an Article in this week’s edition of The Lancet.
Cardiovascular disease is now endemic worldwide and no longer limited to economically developed countries. (more…)

A new study here shows that even slight stress and anxiety can substantially worsen a person’s allergic reaction to some routine allergens.
Moreover, the added impact of stress and anxiety seem to linger, causing the second day of a stressed person’s allergy attack to be much worse.
The finding, the latest in more than three decades of study on stress and immunity, is important since (more…)

How the body regulates blood pressure in response to daily stress is the focus of a study geared toward helping people whose pressure is out of control.
"Research shows that two-thirds of patients’ high blood pressure is not controlled despite the best efforts of their doctors. That is terrible," says Dr. Gregory Harshfield, director of the Georgia Prevention Institute (more…)

Erectile dysfunction is always a matter of the heart, but new research shows that more than romance is at stake. Two new studies of men with type 2 diabetes found that erectile dysfunction (ED) was a powerful early warning sign for serious heart disease, including heart attack and death.
One of the studies also showed that cholesterol-lowering (more…)

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For the past 70 years the treatment of choice for advanced, metastatic prostate cancer has been androgen-deprivation therapy. That is, the suppression of circulating testosterone - the hormone that fuels prostate-cancer growth - via surgical castration (orchiectomy) or medical castration with testosterone-blocking drugs. While such therapy buys time for patients, it is not a cure, as inevitably the cancer becomes resistant to the androgen deprivation and (more…)

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A simple blood test may help doctors better predict whether prostate cancer will recur or spread in patients who have undergone surgery for the disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.
In a study published in the June 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, UT Southwestern scientists identified a panel of seven biomarkers that can predict with 86 (more…)

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A new study by researchers in Finland has some advice for older men when it comes to preserving their sexual function.
The new advice basically says, "use or lose it", the more sex older men have the lower their risk of developing erectile dysfunction (ED).
The researchers advise men who want to preserve their sexual function to have sex often.
The researchers conducted (more…)

Health Canada is warning Canadians with milk allergies not to use several brands of unauthorized acidophilus-containing health products labelled as "non-dairy" because they contain trace amounts of milk protein from dairy ingredients used in the production process.
The products are:
- Truly Premium All Naturals Acidophilus with Bifidus (50 capsules)
- (more…)

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Less educated, older men are more likely to view depression negatively, while almost one in five Australians say they wouldn’t work with someone suffering depression, according to researchers from The Australian National University.
Buy cialis pills The research, published today by online open access (more…)

While summer is the time of year people like to spend most of their day outside, summer allergens keep many sinus sufferers from enjoying activities such as barbequing, hanging out at the pool and spending time in the park, to name a few.
In fact, a new survey of more than 1,000 consumers shows that one-third of sinus sufferers say they miss or cut short social (more…)

An article published in the Archives of Internal Medicine
reports that statins - medications that are usually prescribed to lower
blood cholesterol levels - may also lower blood pressure. Beatrice A.
Golomb, M.D., Ph.D., (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla)
and (more…)

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An Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researcher has identified a protein that is a strong indicator of survival for men with advanced prostate cancer. The C-reactive protein, also known as CRP, is a special type of protein produced by the liver that is elevated in the presence (more…)

Results of a survey launched today revealed that GPs are not referring their severe seasonal allergic rhinitis patients to secondary care, forgoing patient choice and care. The findings demonstrate that GPs cannot see the benefit of referring or feel that they are able to manage their severe allergy patients in their own clinics, despite an increasing number of patients presenting (more…)

The Buyers Health Care Action Group, a health care purchasing coalition in Minnesota for large employers, on Wednesday announced a pay-for-performance pilot program that will reward physicians who effectively treat depressed patients, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. The program will start in 2009 (Forster, St. Paul Pioneer Press, 5/28). The program is modeled (more…)

More than one million Americans currently participate in the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) program. generic levitra online buy While AA participants are reportedly notorious for their coffee drinking and cigarette smoking, very little research has quantified their consumption of these two products. Recent findings confirm that coffee and cigarette use among this population is greater (more…)

University of Florida researchers have identified a drug compound that dramatically lowers blood pressure, improves heart function and - in a remarkable finding - prevents damage to the heart and kidneys in rats with persistent hypertension.
The findings, which appear in the May 1 edition of the American Heart Association journal Hypertension, (more…)

Long-suffering victims of allergies such as asthma and hay fever might enjoy a surprise benefit, according to research led by the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
In a paper presented at an international symposium in Sydney, the researchers show that people with one of these atopic diseases are up to 25 percent less likely to get the most common type of Non-Hodgkin (more…)

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two single-pill combination medications, Diovan HCT® (valsartan and hydrochlorothiazide) and Exforge® (amlodipine and valsartan), as initial or ‘first-line’ therapies in patients likely to need multiple drugs to achieve their blood (more…)