TUPELO — High blood pressure, or hypertension, is the top preventable cause of strokes and heart attacks in the United States, according to Dr. Barry Bertolet, an interventional cardiologist at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an update to their guidelines for treating high blood pressure, a group of cardiovascular medical societies has included a new recommendation for adding renal denervation procedures as an option ...

As Healio previously reported, in the main results of RADIANCE-HTN TRIO, ultrasound renal denervation (Paradise, Recor Medical) better lowered 24-hour ambulatory systolic BP at 2 months compared with ...

Twelve specialty societies, including the American Society of Anesthesiologists and others whose members include pain physicians, have joined together to maintain coverage for facet joint injection ...