New Approach Tested for Hard-to-Treat Hypertension
Researchers increasingly are trying medical devices and minimally invasive surgeries to help, such as stomach-shrinking techniques that improve obesity-caused diabetes
2012-05-28
Lauran Neergaard and Matthew Perrone The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- "Maxed out on the medications," is how Bill Ezzell describes his struggle with blood pressure. It's dangerously high even though the North Carolina man swallows six different drugs a day.
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(CNN) -- Obesity is a widespread epidemic, even among the homeless. 
Consumers need to check their refrigerators because some organic baby spinach is being recalled after random testing found possible salmonella contamination in a finished package of spinach, according to a recall alert published on the FDA website on Tuesday. The sample was taken at a distribution center in Terrel, Texas, by the Texas Department of Agriculture on behalf of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA has a cooperative agreement with states to conduct regular random testing of fruits and vegetables. 
(CNN) -- We have many excuses for not eating healthy: I'm too busy. I don't live near a grocery store. I can't afford healthy food. I don't know how to cook. 
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing. 
WASHINGTON (AP) – The research world is set to see a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer's disease. One of the most intriguing new methods: testing possible therapies in people who don't yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed. 
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon investigators have traced an outbreak of norovirus to a reusable grocery bag that members of a Beaverton girls' soccer team passed around when they shared cookies. 
TOMBSTONE, Arizona (CNN) -- There's a popular saying in the American West: Whiskey's for drinking, but water's for fighting over. This dusty little city, made famous by the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, has a dilly of a water fight on its hands. 
CHICAGO (AP) -- A pill to prevent HIV infection is already being given to some healthy people, but without government approval, it remains out of reach and too costly for many who need it.