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Is chocolate a treatment for high blood pressure?
I've been having problems with high blood pressure for quite a while, especially since I became a truck driver five years ago. I guess the connection is that I sit and don't get enough exercise. I went off my blood pressure medicine about two months ago, and it's really been a challenge to keep my diastolic pressure in the 80s.
"The Best Health Advice I Ever Got"
It's that time of year again when many of us take stock of our lives and try to make things better. Fresh out of ideas? If anyone knows the best ways to get healthy and stay that way, it's the country's top doctors. To get the 411 on what they do to stay healthy, we asked four leading physicians to share the best health advice they ever received. Here's what they told us:
U.S. Personal Health Records Market 2010 to 2015
NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
U.S. Personal Health Records Market 2010 to 2015
Information presented includes an overview of personal health records (PHR), definition of the key market segments by product type, descriptions of product types by technical approaches, an outline of key data elements and sources, a summary of benefits and advantages to using a PHR, a list of major technology and market trends and dynamics, including selected drivers and restraints impacting the market, ...
PureWellness Sees Rapid Adoption of New Virtual Wellness Management Service Offering for Corporate Wellness Programs
BURLINGTON, Vt., Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- PureWellness, a leading provider of online wellness solutions, has announced the signing of its fifteenth customer utilizing its Virtual Wellness Management Services.
Health Experts Urge Halt to Hydrofracking Expansion Until Needed Research is Done into Health Impacts
Industry Called Upon to Set Up Foundation to Conduct Needed, Independent Research
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leading U.S. medical experts urged today that the rapid expansion of unconventional natural gas drilling (known as "hydrofracking") for natural gas extraction be paused so that necessary research can be done into the potential harmful effects on human health.
The comments were made in statements delivered today at a conference sponsored by the nonprofit Physicians Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE) and the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment (MACCHE).
The major PSE/MACCHE event brought together public health experts, physicians, epidemiologists and ...
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