A report from the Institute of Medicine indicates the true statistics that show high blood pressure, or hypertension, is a growing epidemic that is often neglected by the American public. The study shows that 73 million people suffer from high blood pressure with another 59 million people already suffering from pre-hypertension. The main reason is
A box of 55-year-old computer punch cards has yielded a wealth of scientific data on high-density lipoprotein (HDL), commonly known as “good” cholesterol. Created by scientist John Gofman, Ph.D., at the United States Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory between 1954 and 1956, the cards detail the HDL levels of nearly 2,000 of the
Individuals who experience a stroke may want to begin taking the nutritional supplement, vitamin B3, as a new study suggests that it could be an effective treatment to improve neurological function. According to researchers from the Henry Ford Hospital, when rats that experienced an ischemic stroke were given vitamin B3, their brains began to grow
Pharmaceutical drug giant Pfizer recently halted trials of its new cholesterol drug Torcetrapib after an independent safety board discovered an unexpectedly high number of deaths associated with its use! The drug is designed to raise HDL levelscommonly called good cholesterol. Drug researchers believed Torcetrapib could be used in conjunction with statins or other drugs used