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FinanceBlood pressure pills could raise cancer risk
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010No surprise here, but some of the world’s most popular blood pressure pills may slightly increase your risk of getting cancer. Of course doctors say it’s too soon to stop using the drugs. In an analysis of five previous studies following some 60,000 patients, they found a link between people taking medicines known as angiotensin-receptor [...]
Parents have lower blood pressure
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Parents have a stressful job. It isn’t easy raising kids, but new research calls into question some long-held beliefs about physical and psychological effects of having kids. Surprisingly, a new study finds that parents have better blood pressure readings than childless adults. “Women were driving the effect,” says co-author Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a psychologist at Brigham [...]
Panasonic Blood Pressure Monitor with SD Card
Friday, August 21st, 2009If you need to monitor your blood pressure, here’s a gadget that might come in very handy. Panasonic’s Blood Pressure monitor with an SD card slot. It allows you to save your health data on the SD card for up to 5 different people. So if you have a few people in your home with [...]
