For the first time, in a study conducted in mice, researchers found that tobacco smoke from a hookah caused blood
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Need to control blood sugar? There’s a drink for that
With more people with diabetes and pre-diabetes looking for strategies to help control blood sugar, new research from UBC’s Okanagan
Continue reading »New blood test diagnoses more women with heart attack but gender gap in treatment remains
Women receive poorer heart attack treatment than men, even when rates of diagnosis are the same, according to new research
Continue reading »Low blood pressure could be a culprit in dementia, studies suggest
Decline in brain function often occurs as people age. People often worry that declining brain function is an inevitable part
Continue reading »No added dizzy episodes for adults on more intensive blood pressure-lowering treatment
Adults who received more intensive treatment to lower their blood pressure were less likely to experience drastic blood pressure drops,
Continue reading »Blood pressure monitoring may one day be easy as taking a video selfie
Blood pressure monitoring might one day become as easy as taking a video selfie, according to new research in Circulation:
Continue reading »Similarities of small cell cancers to blood cancers could lead to better treatments
An interdisciplinary team of UCLA scientists has found that small cell neuroendocrine cancers from a range of tissues have a
Continue reading »One in five hematological cancer patients suffer blood clots or bleeding
New Danish research may direct focus toward the serious complications that every fifth hematological cancer patient suffers, according to medical
Continue reading »Changes in blood flow tell heart cells to regenerate
Altered blood flow resulting from heart injury switches on a communication cascade that reprograms heart cells and leads to heart
Continue reading »If a Visit to the Doctor Makes Your Blood Pressure Rise, It Could Be a Sign of Something More Serious
Doctors have long been puzzled by white coat hypertension (WCH), a condition that causes a person’s blood pressure reading to
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