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 (Medical Xpress)—Arturo Figueroa, a researcher in the Florida State University College of Human Sciences, has confirmed with a team of researchers that Nutrisystem, with or without low intense resistance exercise, improves arterial function in obese, postmenopausal women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-nutrisystem-arterial-function-obese-postemenopausal.html Health Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:09:29 EST news276941277 A review article by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) debunks the widely-believed concept that hypertension, or high blood pressure, is the result of excess salt causing an increased blood volume, exerting extra pressure on the arteries. Published online in the Journal of Hypertension, the study demonstrates that excess salt stimulates the sympathetic nervous system to produce adrenalin, causing artery constriction and hypertension. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-link-salt-hypertension.html Health Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:15:27 EST news245499312