Scientists are to test whether an experimental drug can prevent potentially deadly blood clots associated with Covid-19. The trial, funded by the British Heart Foundation, will test the theory the clots are caused by a hormone imbalance triggered by coronavirus infection. It will become one of several drugs currently being trialled to prevent the disease’s… Read More »
Scientists at Heidelberg University Hospital and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have discovered that a drug to lower blood pressure alters the tissue characteristics of secondary tumours, or metastases, from colon cancer. The ‘stiffness’ of these metastases has an effect on the success of cancer therapies. The results are published in Cancer Cell. Heidelberg… Read More »
Yoga and Hypertension. One cause of high blood pressure that is resistant to standard treatments is the narrowing of the arteries in your kidneys renal artery stenosis. Can birth control pills lead to high blood pressure? On further lowering of the pressure, the pounding stops once it goes beyond the diastolic pressure, giving the second… Read More »