http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Patients who take a triple combination of blood pressure drugs and common painkillers are at an increased risk of serious kidney problems, especially at the start of treatment, finds a study published in BMJ today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-triple-blood-pressure-drugs-painkillers.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:30:04 EST news276875011 Nearly 5 percent of pregnant women are prescribed drugs to treat high blood pressure, including some drugs that aren't considered safe for mothers or their babies, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Hypertension. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-pregnant-women-high-blood-pressure.html Cardiology Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:00:09 EST news266501123 Healthy behaviours regarding alcohol, physical activity, vegetable intake and body weight reduce the risk of hypertension by two thirds, according to research presented at the ESC Congress today. The findings were presented by Professor Pekka Jousilahti from National Institute for Health and Welfare. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-healthy-lifestyle-hypertension-thirds.html Cardiology Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:58:06 EST news265287475 Renal denervation improves blood pressure and arterial stiffness in patients with therapy resistant hypertension, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2012 by Mr Klaas Franzen from the University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein. The findings suggest that renal denervation regenerates blood vessels and could reduce cardiovascular events. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-renal-denervation-blood-pressure-arterial.html Cardiology Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:20:03 EST news265279875 Renal sympathetic denervation improves anxiety, depression, quality of life and stress in patients with resistant hypertension, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2012 by Dr Denise Fischer from Saarland University Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-renal-sympathetic-denervation-physical-mental.html Cardiology Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:00:01 EST news265279777 Long-term use of commonly used blood pressure medications that increase sensitivity to sunlight is associated with an increased risk of lip cancer in non-Hispanic whites, according to a Kaiser Permanente study that appears in the current online issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-long-term-blood-pressure-meds-sun.html Cancer Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:21:16 EST news263488869 (HealthDay) -- A reduction in central to brachial amplification induced by some antihypertensive drugs may result in lesser reductions in central than brachial systolic blood pressure, according to research published online May 25 in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-anti-htn-drugs-distinct-effect-central.html Medical research Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:10:01 EST news258208003 A study comparing a bariatric surgical procedure with conventional medical treatment in morbidly obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus suggests that surgery was associated with remission or improvement in diabetes-related outcomes, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-sleeve-gastrectomy-medical-treatment-obese.html Sleep apnea Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:12:49 EST news253811475 Women with high blood pressure (hypertension) in the early stages of pregnancy are more likely to have babies with birth defects, irrespective of commonly prescribed medicines for their condition, finds new research published in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-high-blood-pressure-early-pregnancy.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:30:05 EST news238179015 (Medical Xpress) -- In a new report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers reveal a new miniature artificial human liver that can be implanted into mice to better enable testing of new drugs and how humans will metabolize them. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-mice-human-livers-pharmaceutical-accurate.html Medical research Tue, 12 Jul 2011 06:50:01 EST news229668175