It’s Bad, but it Lowers Your Blood Pressure

It’s Bad, but it Lowers Your Blood Pressure

by | Jul 5, 2019

It’s not often that something can be good and bad for you at the same time, but researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found something that’s just that. Something that can lower your blood pressure but will have doctors jumping up and down. Scientists were...
Three-Minute Test Could Save Your Life

Three-Minute Test Could Save Your Life

by | Jul 2, 2019

Your home blood pressure monitor could be even more useful than you thought. You already know that keeping track of your blood pressure is important, but this recent discovery takes it one step further. It can predict with startling accuracy your chances of suffering...
Turn Back the Clock on Your Ageing Heart

Turn Back the Clock on Your Ageing Heart

by | Jul 1, 2019

Want to live forever? Scientists have taken one step closer to achieving this dream after finding a secret protein that keeps cardiac muscle youthful. And it may be the key to keeping heart attacks and stroke at bay for good. Cell magazine published a Harvard study...
Common Meds that Spike Your Blood Pressure

Common Meds that Spike Your Blood Pressure

by | Jun 26, 2019

Pain is a known cause of high blood pressure. The body responds to long-term pain the same way that it responds to sudden injury: it raises your blood pressure. So, it doesn’t help when the meds you’re taking for the pain cause your blood pressure to spike as well....
Common Drug Raises Cardiovascular Disease Risk 32%

Common Drug Raises Cardiovascular Disease Risk 32%

by | Jun 25, 2019

Antibiotics have saved countless lives since Alexander Fleming first discovered penicillin in 1928. But overuse has led to worries about bacteria becoming resistant to these commonly prescribed drugs. That’s common knowledge of course, but what isn’t is the other...