Topic: Vascular Disorders
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-23 07:23:20
CHICAGO (Reuters) - High blood pressure is a "neglected disease" and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must do more to fight it by helping Americans eat better and encouraging doctors to treat it more aggressively, an expert panel said on Monday. The report by the Institute of Medicine, one of the National Academies of Sciences, urges the ...
AP News | 2010-02-22 16:30:50
Report finds high blood pressure epidemic neglected, urges doctors, feds to be more aggressive
A critical new report declares high blood pressure in the U.S. to be a neglected disease — a term that usually describes mysterious tropical illnesses, not a well-known plague of rich countries. The prestigious Institute of Medicine said Monday that even though nearly one in three ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-15 19:41:32
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with active forms of a group of conditions known as inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, seem to be at far greater risk of developing potentially life-threatening blood clots than previously recognized, a British study released Monday indicates.</p><p>The study, appearing in the Lancet ...
