Advocates of measuring plasma renin activity argue that this approach leads to individualized treatment, which is more likely to lower BP in a timely manner with fewer drugs. [1] Additionally ...

Scientists have discovered that long-term use of common medications for high blood pressure and heart failure could contribute to kidney damage. While these drugs, including ACE inhibitors, are ...

Regardless of country-level income classification, medications for the secondary prevention of CVD remains underutilized and ...

The aldosterone-renin ratio (ARR) has gained popularity as a screening test for primary hyperaldosteronism, a probably underdiagnosed cause of hypertension. However, studies have yielded varying ...

Two of these consequences are increased blood pressure and suppressed plasma renin. 1 At similar blood pressures, patients with primary aldosteronism treated with standard antihypertensive medications ...

Drug addiction is a condition in which there is uncontrolled use of a substance with a harmful outcome. Drugs overstimulate the brain’s reward circuit, producing pleasure or euphoria. With repeated ...

Sometimes you may receive a combination of therapies, or something else entirely. Oncology (cancer) drugs include a range of therapies and medications, such as chemotherapy drugs, targeted ...

Drugmakers raised the list prices on 575 name-brand drugs in just the first two days of the new year, according to drug price research firm 46brooklyn. Drugs for diabetes, HIV, cancer saw price ...

Berlin: Bayer has announced the submission of a marketing authorization application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), ...

But many people who take daily medications are unaware that certain drugs in their pill box can also increase their risk of falling, which can lead to devastating, even fatal, complications. Falls are ...

An analysis of the PURE study shows some gains but “little to no improvement in most places over time,” says Philip Joseph.