August 3, 2018 — Even as a young adult, being overweight may cause...
Hypertension
This page includes news and new technology on hypertension. The condition is caused by abnormally high blood pressure that causes excess force and pressure of the blood against the artery walls. Long-term, this can cause damage the vessels and contributes to heart disease. Therapies include antihypertensive medications such as diuretics and renal denervation therapy.
July 30, 2018 — Approximately 75 percent of black and men women are...
July 5, 2018 — Physician practices now have access to new resources to improve their standard of quality care for...
June 13, 2018 — Medication management platform Medisafe released data showing that, on average,...
May 31, 2018 – ReCor Medical announced that the RADIANCE-HTN SOLO...
May 30, 2018 — Despite the best efforts of clinicians to manage hypertension, it continues to increase and is now...
May 23, 2018 – At the 2018 EuroPCR Annual Meeting in Paris, Medtronic announced first-ever-data from the SPYRAL HTN-...
April 16, 2018 — Medtronic plc announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to begin an...
April 5, 2018 — YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) and the American Heart Association (AHA) are combining efforts to help more...
March 28, 2018 — Population health...

A patient who received the HeartMate III LVAD system showing off his external battery pack. He served as a patient ambassador in the Abbott booth at ACC.18. The HeartMate III, with its magnetic levitated pump, showed a big reduction in clotting over previous LVADs in a key late-breaking trial at this year's conference.
There were several notable presentations of new data on cardiovascular technologies at the recent 2018 American...
March 20, 2018 — A pill combining low doses of three...
March 20, 2018 — African-American men who received medical intervention aimed at controlling their...
February 16, 2018 — California’s Petaluma Health Center (PHC) was recently awarded a 2017 Healthcare Information and...
December 6, 2017 — Women who develop high blood pressure during pregnancy are more likely to experience heart...