News tagged with 'Blood Pressure'

All drugs have side effects and the latest published study finds that a class of blood pressure drugs known as angiotensin-receptor blockers or ARBs had a slight increased risk of cancer.

Researchers have discovered that an amino acid found in vegetable protein appears to lower blood pressure.  Glutamic acid, found in beans, whole grains, soy products and others, is the most common amino acid found in vegetables and accounts for 23 percent of vegetable protein and 18 percent of meat protein.  

On the day the Labor Department announced another half-million job losses, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health are releasing their findings about unemployment’s impact on health. Losing a job can translate into compromised health, researchers found, even if a new job is secured. 

The FDA is issuing its third alert concerning over-the-counter weight loss products that contain prescription ingredients. A diuretic, anti-seizure, and prescription-only appetite supressant have been found in these OTC drugs the FDA wants taken off the market. 

Heart disease is still the leading killer in the U.S., but first time heart attacks are becoming less severe and more survivable than in the past, according to this long-running survey from several rural areas in the U.S. Better preventive measure and improved hospital care may be the reason.

A new study found, magnesium sulfate, given to mothers at risk of preterm delivery, cut the rate of cerebral palsy in their babies by nearly half. Cerebral palsy is a disorder that affects 1 or 2 of every 1,000 infants.

Teens that sleep fewer than 6 1/2 hours per night are at twice the risk of developing hypertension (high blood pressure) and those with troubled sleep habits are at triple the risk, according to researchers at Western Reserve University.

According to a new report published in this week's issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, middle-aged men and women face a high risk of developing hypertension. Doctors with the Framingham Heart Study in Massachusetts examined nearly 1,300 men and women age fifty-five to sixty-five who, until that t

The family of Ellen Roche, the Johns Hopkins University asthma study participant who died during a clinical trial, recently announced that a settlement had been reached with the school over Roche's death. Roche, an otherwise healthy 24-year-old lab worker, died on June 2, 2001 after inhaling hexamethonium, a drug know

Today, Johns Hopkins resumed federally funded research studies involving human subjects. The government suspended the hospital's privileges last week, following the death of a volunteer involved in an asthma study. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) reinstate

The CEO of Johns Hopkins Medical Institution admitted the hospital's responsibility in the death of a 24-year-old study participant. Ellen Roche was an otherwise healthy woman when she voluntarily enrolled in Hopkins' study of irritants that cause asthma. As part of the study, Roche was given one gram of hexame

According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a young woman who died in a Johns Hopkins University clinical trial was not informed of the experimental nature of the medication she was given. In addition, FDA investigators cited the study's organizers for failing to report a previous adverse reaction to the medi

The study volunteer who died during research at the Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center was an otherwise healthy woman. Ellen Roche was employed at the Center and volunteered to participate in a study in which she was required to inhale a blood pressure medication known as hexamethonium. Roche died one month afte

Even faced with the knowledge that a new drug used to fight high blood pressure could cause serious heart arrhythmias and even death, the FDA chose to approve Hoffman-La Roche Inc.'s Posicor. According to FDA officials, during clinical trials of Posicor a 70-year-old man died suddenly after taking the drug. Posicor "