E. D. Freis, Expert on Risks of Hypertension, Dies at 92
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Dr. Edward D. Freis's early studies of high blood pressure in patients helped definitively establish the health risks of hypertension.
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Over the past decade, the number of Americans with high blood pressure has increased significantly, suggesting an epidemic. A new report shows that one in three Americans has high blood pressure, which represents
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, died over the weekend in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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Maurice Wilkins, 88, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 along with the two scientists credited for describing the structure of DNA, Francis Crick and James Watson, died Tuesday at a London hospital.
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Julius Axelrod, a National Institutes of Health neuroscientist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on how nerve cells communicate and affect behavior, has died. He was 92.
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Marion Williams knows she has a hard time relaxing. She leads a busy life as a traveling nurse, grandmother of 10, and advocate for nursing home residents, and for years she had high blood pressure. "It was due to the stress," said Williams, one of many black Americans who has battled high blood pressure.
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Martin M. Kaplan, a health researcher and former secretary-general of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pugwash conferences on disarmament, has died. He was 89.
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NEW YORK  - Daily consumption of Calpis, a  cultured milk-based drink, has a beneficial effect on blood  pressure in men, according to a report by Japanese researchers.
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New evidence emerges of a link between the pregnancy disorder pre-eclampsia and heart disease.
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CHICAGO  - A common hypertension medication appears to dramatically reduce the risk of complications or death in patients with heart disease, but without the high blood pressure that often goes hand-in-hand with the condition, a study said.
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Patients taking a combination of newer  blood pressure drugs have a much better chance of avoiding  heart attacks and stroke than those on older pills, a British  researcher leading a major clinical study said on Wednesday.
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Marfan syndrome causes a heart defect that can be fatal without notice at a young age. Scientists are learning how a common hypertension drug might prevent sudden death for hundreds of patients. By Michael D. O'Neill.
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People taking a certain type of blood pressure medication called calcium channel blockers may also be lowering their risk of getting Parkinson's disease, according to a study released Wednesday.
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William C. Reeves, the UC Berkeley scientist whose pioneering research into the links between insects and human disease played a major role in stemming the spread of West Nile virus and other far more deadly disease outbreaks around the world, died Sunday
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By News Sentinel staff  A noted scientist and former director of the University of Tennessee's McClung Museum died Tuesday of complications from a stroke.  Dr. Paul W.
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Thomas O. Pyle, who built the Harvard Community Health Plan into one of the nationâs largest and most innovative health care providers, died Wednesday.
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Dr. Judah Folkman, who discovered that tumors generate their own network of tiny blood vessels to nourish themselves, has died at the age of 74, Harvard Medical School said on Tuesday.