Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TUPELO — High blood pressure, or hypertension, is the top preventable cause of strokes and heart attacks in the United States, ...

BOROUGH PARK — AN INNOVATIVE PROCEDURE TO CALM THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND KIDNEYS was launched at Maimonides Medical Center this week. Maimonides has become the first hospital in Brooklyn to offer the ...

Recent data suggest that peri-arterial renal sympathetic nerve fibers are less dense in distal segments and dorsal locations and that these nerves are primarily composed of efferent rather than ...

Kidney denervation, a procedure where the nerves in renal arteries are burned, may be a future treatment for people whose blood pressure remains high despite medication use. Results from the ...

ATLANTA - At 69, Paul Griffin of Newnan has been living with high blood pressure for about 25 years. Diagnosed in his early 40s, Griffin's doctor put him on a drug that, he says, caused some negative ...

Cardiologists are welcoming the arrival of a new device-based hypertension treatment called renal denervation and asking Medicare to cover the procedure for a large patient population. Doctors, ...

The treatment of resistant hypertension has received a boost with the recent US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of a completely new therapeutic approach that reduces activity in the ...

At the Federico II University Hospital in Naples, patients with uncontrolled hypertension not managed with medication are treated using the renal denervation procedure. This is a minimally invasive ...

Ultrasound-based renal denervation (Paradise; ReCor Medical) significantly lowers systolic blood pressure when compared with a sham procedure in patients with resistant hypertension treated on a ...