Main Category: Hypertension Also Included In: Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals ; Cardiovascular / Cardiology Article Date: 23 Nov 2009 - 4:00 PST Pfizer announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Revatio Injection, an intravenous formulation of Revatio.

Does stress increase blood pressure? This simple question has been the focus of intense research for many years.

Kidney transplant recipients are already at increased risks for a variety of problems.

New studies show Transcendental Meditation reduces blood pressure in students and almost halves heart attacks - UK case studies available The first randomised controlled trial to demonstrate that a mental technique can reduce blood pressure in at-risk university students - through improving psychological health - was published on Wednesday in the ...

Patients whose hypertension is managed by a physician-pharmacist team have lower blood pressure levels and are more likely to reach goals for blood pressure control than those treated without this collaborative approach, according to a report in the November 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine .

A disease that is often dubbed "the other high blood pressure" is now becoming more well-known in the community, thanks to the formation of a local support group for those with pulmonary hypertension.

Kidney transplant patients with sleep apnea are at increased risk for high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke, Hungarian researchers say.

Sleep apnea is common in individuals who receive a kidney transplant and is associated with increased risk of high blood pressure, heart disease or stroke, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology .

Drug developer Pfizer Inc. said Friday the Food and Drug Administration approved an intravenous version of its high blood pressure drug Revatio.

ISLAMABAD : Middle-aged men who suffer from migraine are more at risk of heart attacks, says a new study.

Top Institute Pharma has formed a consortium with Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Erasmus Medical Centre and Maastricht University to define new modalities for the treatment of hypertension and associated vascular complications such as heart and kidney failure, myocardial infarction and stroke.

If the stresses of college have put you at risk for high blood pressure, try transcendental meditation.

Most children are on the fast track to diabetes and high blood pressure. In fact, doctors believe that children under 10 may be the first American generation to live shorter lives than their parents.

Tried-and-true diuretics maintain their status as the best first-line treatment in older men and women with high blood pressure, new research concludes.

The Transcendental Meditation technique may be an effective method to reduce blood pressure, anxiety, depression, and anger among at-risk college students, according to a new study to be published in the American Journal of Hypertension , December 2009.

You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies.

A moderate-fat diet may work better than a low-fat regimen for people suffering from metabolic syndrome, a collection of conditions putting them at higher risk for cardiovascular disease, new research finds.

Let's say you go to your local pharmacy to pick up your prescription for high blood pressure.

A 51-year-old Nazareth woman who suffered from high blood pressure died on Monday from complications of swine flu, becoming the 48th person to die of the pandemic in Israel.

John Blebea, M.D., Professor-in-Chief of Vascular Surgery at Temple University in Philadelphia, Penn., talks about a new device that helps patients with high blood pressure when medications don't work.