High Blood Pressure

Restaurant meals overloaded with salt, fat, calories, study says

2013-05-14 05:30:00

Want to satisfy your full day’s requirement of salt, fat and calories? Sit down in a restaurant and order a meal. After an exhaustive analysis of 3,507 possible ways to order 685 meals at 19 restaurants chains in Canada, researchers found that the...

For a dying patient, a prescription of silence

2013-05-16 00:00:00

His wife was a patient at the clinic where I worked in my early days as a doctor. I saw her regularly for hypertension. But on one visit, she was more concerned about her husband — let's call him Pedro. He was having stomach pains and difficulty...

How to avoid a return to the hospital

2013-05-17 20:09:00

The only thing less pleasant than a stay in the hospital is having to go right back there to deal with complications. And experts say it happens all too often. One in 8 elderly patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged...

Study casts doubt on some findings about sodium

2013-05-14 17:49:00

Are Americans getting mixed messages about how much sodium they should be consuming? Lately, yes, and some of those messages are muddled because studies themselves are muddled, a panel of doctors has concluded. The Institute of Medicine panel...

Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities

2013-05-18 22:06:00

WASHINGTON — Republican opposition in many statehouses to expanding Medicaid next year under President Obama's healthcare law — opposition that could leave millions of the nation's poorest residents without insurance coverage — will...

Dietary supplement contained erectile dysfunction drug

2013-05-08 11:01:00

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the recall of several dietary supplements that contain the undeclared drug tadalafil, which is used to treat erectile dysfunction. The products --�SexVoltz, Velextra, and Amerect -- were manufactured...

Monster Beverage sued by San Francisco

2013-05-07 00:00:00

San Francisco City Atty. Dennis Herrera has sued Monster Beverage Corp., accusing the company of pitching highly caffeinated drinks to minors as young as 6 years old. The lawsuit, filed Monday in San Francisco Superior Court, is the latest twist in a...

Stressed out? Try thinking of something you value

2013-05-03 15:17:00

Feeling so stressed you can't concentrate? Try stepping back a moment and thinking about what's important to you. That's the conclusion of a study published recently in the journal PLOS One that examined the beneficial qualities of self-affirmation in...

How a 'million-dollar patient' got off a medical merry-go-round

2013-05-05 16:22:00

For more than two decades, Wanda Remo has battled one illness after another. Asthma, chronic lung disease, heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, depression, chronic pain, strokes. Specialists treat her lungs, her heart and her joints. Her...

S.F. city attorney, Monster in legal fight over energy drinks

2013-05-06 10:54:00

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is lashing back at Monster Beverage Corp. with his own lawsuit a week after being sued by the Corona energy drink maker. The root of the legal barbs: Herrera’s attempts to curb caffeine content in Monster...

BBB looks to regain trust with relaunch of Southland branch

2013-05-02 16:15:00

The Better Business Bureau wants you to know that it's cleaned up its act in Los Angeles. The organization reached out to me this week to say that a new operation is up and running after the old BBB of the Southland was expelled in March after years...

College binge drinking raises risk of heart disease

2013-04-23 15:31:00

Step away from the beer pong table! College binge drinking may leave you with more than just embarrassing memories and excruciating hangovers. In a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers found that four...

Plainfield resident Whitney Gaspar's pulmonary hypertension was originally misdiagnosed as asthma. A new University of Chicago study shows that pulmonary hypertension is often diagnosed incorrectly.

2013-05-06 15:18:03

West Coast University's Gary Melkonyan takes Wadhu Bhojwani's blood pressure before the "Go Red For Women Heels For Hearts" event at the Glendale Galleria in Glendale on Thursday, February 14, 2013. Dozens of people participated in the walk around inside the mall.

2013-02-14 19:18:00

Have your blood pressure monitored on a regular basis if it's high.

2013-01-30 18:15:50