One in three adults has hypertension, a condition that causes about half of all deaths from stroke and heart problems in the world, and one in ten, diabetes, said a World Health Organization (WHO) report annual health statistics. “This report provides further evidence of the dramatic increase of the conditions that trigger heart ailments and other chronic diseases, particularly in poor... 

The circadian clock that governs the biological rhythm of living things and is activated every 24 hours, has developed over 2 000 500 million years in a similar way in all living things, reports the British journal Nature. An investigation led by neuroscientist Akhilesh Reddy, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), shows for the first time that so-called biological clock evolved in much... 

A quarter of people over 24 years in the world have high blood pressure, and nearly one in 10 shows worrying levels of blood glucose. The latest statistics from the World Health Organization include first blood pressure levels and glucose, two risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Among the findings released Wednesday contained 29.2% of males and 24.8% of women with high blood... 

Scientists tested with potential therapies in people who do not have many symptoms of Alzheimer’s, before much of their brain is destroyed: a fundamental change in the way that specialists tend to prevent the devastation that causes the disease. The most ambitious attempt to date is announced an international study, which will follow up on an experimental drug to determine if it can stop... 

Hypertension is not only cardiovascular risk factor more prevalent and the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but also increases by 70% the risk of vascular dementia, the second leading cause of cognitive impairment in adults after Alzheimer’s. The Spanish Heart Foundation (ESF) made this warning in a statement on the occasion of the commemoration of World Hypertension... 

Exercise can help decrease the risk of hypertension in people with a family history of high blood pressure, according to a study published in the journal Hypertension. The publication of the American Heart Association reports a study of more than 6 thousand people shows that participants who had a relative with high blood pressure, but were in a good shape had a risk a 34% lower themselves to... 

More than 19 million children each year are left without completing their vaccinations at the expense of potentially fatal diseases due primarily to the strategies of immunization and the vaccines themselves are not designed for the realities of poor countries, where the true problem. The humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) addressed this issue publicly, days before it starts... 

Patients with HIV are 4.5 times more likely to die of a heart attack than people who are not HIV positive, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The study by professors at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) suggests that sudden death from heart attack was the second most common cause of death among HIV-positive, after AIDS. The... 

Bottles and pacifiers in the hands and mouths of children may seem harmless objects, however they are the cause of multiple visits to emergency rooms each year, according to a study. As reported by the Nationwide Children’s Hospital, four hours a child under three years is treated in an emergency room because of an injury related to the use of bottles, pacifiers and cups cover (“sippy... 

Advisers to the FDA, the regulatory agency of the U.S. health care, recommended approval of which would be the first new drug for weight loss in over a decade, despite concerns about heart risks. The stock prices of the drug’s maker, Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc., jumped from 3.66 to 7.15 dollars in transactions after the close of trading. A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration...