http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A research study of more than 600 black patients with uncontrolled hypertension found that less than half were prescribed a diuretic drug with proven benefit that costs just pennies a day, report researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York's (VNSNY) Center for Home Care Policy and Research. The researchers say these new findings should be taken as a serious wake-up call for physicians who treat black patients with hypertension. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-black-patients-hypertension-diuretics.html Cardiology Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:59:27 EST news278096353 Improved home care resources for people with conditions such as dementia, who would prefer to die at home, are key to providing better end of life care and reducing the strain of the UK's ageing population on the NHS, according to researchers at King's College London. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-palliative-experts-home.html Health Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:44:18 EST news267785051