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A critical new report declares high blood pressure in the U.S. to be a neglected disease — a term that usually describes mysterious tropical illnesses, not a wellknown plague of rich countries. The prestigious Institute of Medicine said Monday that even though nearly one in three adults has hypertension, and it is on the rise, fighting it apparently has fallen out of fashion: Doctors too often don't treat it aggressively, and the government hasn't made it enough of a priority, either. Yet high blood pressure, the s...
People with severe asthma are getting a radically different treatment option: A way to snake a wire inside their lungs and melt off some of the tissue that squeezes their airways shut. Bronchial thermoplasty isn't for everyone, just a subset who wheeze despite today's best medications. It is neither a cure nor without risk. But the Alair system, rolling out this month, offers the first method of physically altering spasm-prone airways. "It does seem to improve your ability to live with your asthma," says Dr. Michael Si lver...
