Could Vitamin D Help Lower Blood Pressure? Here's What a New Study Found Fact checked by Nick Blackmer New research found that vitamin D, when taken with calcium, may lower blood pressure in obese older adults.The study lacked a placebo group, which makes it hard to tell ... 11/27/2024 - 6:00 am | View Link
A cautionary view on blood pressure lowering in patients with acute ischaemic stroke receiving reperfusion therapy In the early 1990s, a pivotal randomised trial sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) showed that intravenous thrombolysis with alteplase was effective in ... 11/25/2024 - 12:08 pm | View Link
Study exposes Australia's $1.2B bill to treat high blood pressure Treating Australia's high blood pressure problem comes at a high annual cost of more than AUD1.2 billion, with patients covering 40% of the bill in out-of-pocket charges, and the taxpayer footing the ... 11/25/2024 - 2:57 am | View Link
Researchers: Common high blood pressure treatment damages kidneys Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine say this finding could open the door to better ways to manage high blood pressure and other vascular diseases. 11/18/2024 - 8:55 am | View Link
Intensive blood pressure treatment reduces cardiovascular risk in people with Type 2 diabetes An intensive treatment approach to lowering high systolic blood pressure in people with Type 2 diabetes led to a reduced risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure and death due to cardiovascular ... 11/18/2024 - 12:40 am | View Link
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired, with David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus named as interim co-CEOs.
Gelsinger, whose career has spanned more than 40 years, also stepped down from the company’s board. He started at Intel in 1979 at Intel and was its first chief technology officer. He returned to Intel as chief executive in 2021.
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Intel said Monday that it will conduct a search for a new CEO.
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Zinsner is executive vice president and chief financial officer at Intel.
Dear Eric: I am friends with a person I dated for a short while. We’re in our 50s. The only reason I still see her is that she doesn’t have any other friends.
She is also a sole parent to a difficult teen who also has no friends and has no desire to make any (she tells me this).
MANILA — An impeachment complaint was filed Monday against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, who is facing a legal storm over a death threat she made against the President and her alleged role in extra-judicial killings of drug suspects, corruption and failure to stand up to Chinese aggression in the disputed South China Sea.
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The impeachment bid filed by several prominent civil society activists in the House of Representatives accuses Duterte of violating the country’s Constitution, betrayal of public trust and other “high crimes,” including the death threats she made against the President, his wife and the speaker of the House of Representatives.
Duterte did not immediately issue any response to the impeachment bid, which accused her of about two dozen alleged crimes.
“We’re hoping that with this complaint, we can end the nightmare that our Vice President has brought to the people,” said Rep.
Today is Monday, Dec. 2, the 337th day of 2024. There are 29 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Dec. 2, 1982, in the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of retired dentist Dr.
Moon Alert: Caution! Avoid shopping or important decisions from 10:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST today (7:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.). After that, the Moon moves from Sagittarius into Capricorn
Happy Birthday for Monday, Dec. 2, 2024:
You are creative and spontaneous. You have a strong, adventurous, sunny spirit. People respond to your friendly nature.
If you’ve been scrolling too long on social media, you might be suffering from “brain rot,” the word of 2024, per the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary.
After public consultation, Oxford University Press announced its choice—defined as the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging” as well as “something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration”—on Monday.