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Photo by Lucy Wayland Roses are beautiful, but rose hips are bursting with phytonutrients and health benefits. Indeed, they have a long history of being used to treat disease in traditional medicines around the world. We can now validate this with scientific...

For individuals with chronic kidney disease, strict blood pressure control may help protect against premature death. That’s the conclusion of a recent analysis of clinical trial data. The findings appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American...

Objective. A systematic review of randomized controlled trials has been performed to assess the effectiveness of stimulation of acupoint KI 1 by Artemisia vulgaris (the Japanese name is moxa) to lower blood pressure compared to antihypertensive drugs...

Study Citations: Shrestha N, Kukkonen-Harjula KT, Verbeek JH, Ijaz S, Hermans V, Bhaumik S. Workplace interventions for reducing sitting at work. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2016; 3: CD010912. Angadi SS, Weltman A, Watson-Winfield D, Weltman...

Researchers have projected that aggressively lowering blood pressure could help prevent more than 100,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. “The public health impact of adopting intensive treatment in the right patients is enormous,” says Adam Bress, University...