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Digitizing Medicine

Hypertension (High blood pressure)

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High-Risk Pregnancy? Bed Rest May Not Be the Answer

>> July 30, 2023

Bed rest is one of the most common interventions prescribed for high-risk pregnancies, but does it actually work?

conditions: Depression| Diabetes| Gestational Diabetes| Hypertension (High blood pressure)

How Doctors Can Transplant Organs Without a Donor Match

>> February 12, 2023

This week, we discuss how creative thinking and plasma exchange technology helped save one patient's life.

conditions: Hypertension (High blood pressure)| Kidney Disease

Medical Notes: Week of January 10, 2021

>> January 10, 2021

Doctors consider people at high risk for a stroke if they have medical conditions like diabetes or high blood pressure. But maybe they should consider whether they’re depressed as well. Then, children under age two may suffer effects from antibiotics later on in childhood. And finally, mom may have always told you to eat your vegetables… but a little meat …

conditions: Allergies| Asthma| Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD)| Cancer| Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2)| Depression| Diabetes| Food Allergies| Hypertension (High blood pressure)| Obesity| Stroke

Medical Notes: Week of October 4, 2020

>> October 4, 2020

Wearing a face mask may give people a sort of immunity to serious cases of Covid-19. Then, one more reason to save honeybees—their venom is a powerful chemotherapy agent against so-called “triple negative” breast cancer. And finally, a study finds thick thighs save lives when it comes to high blood pressure.

conditions: Breast cancer| Cancer| Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2)| Hypertension (High blood pressure)
Kidney Disease and High Blood Pressure

Kidney Disease and High Blood Pressure

>> March 29, 2020

Most people who have kidney disease are not aware of it. In fact, nearly half of people with severe kidney disease don’t know it. Kidney disease is often silent, and one of its main risk factors, high blood pressure, is silent as well. The head of the NIH’s kidney research organization discusses this major public health issue and what people should look for …

conditions: Diabetes| Hypertension (High blood pressure)| Kidney Disease

Medical Notes: Week of June 24, 2018

>> June 24, 2018

A look at new proposed hypertension guidelines, youth baseball injuries, and drinking coffee to be have more productive meetings.

conditions: Cardiovascular/Heart Disease| Hypertension (High blood pressure)

Medical Notes: Week of January 14, 2018

>> January 14, 2018

Increased risk of heart disease death for people with restless leg syndrome, an experimental test for whether an upper respiratory infection is caused by a virus or bacteria, and genes that cause bad breath.

conditions: Cardiovascular/Heart Disease| Hypertension (High blood pressure)| Infection| Influenza| Restless Leg Syndrome

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