Diuretics, pills used by millions of elderly people to lower high blood pressure, clearly reduce the long-term risk of death from heart attacks and strokes, according to a study that could ease fears ...

This means doctors might want to think twice before choosing ACE inhibitors as the first medicine for high blood pressure.

New data add strength to prior observations that long-term exposure to thiazide diuretics is associated with a higher risk of developing some types of skin cancer. “What we found was that when you ...

A clinical trial funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) revealed there is no significant difference in the effectiveness of furosemide and torsemide, two heart failure drugs, when it comes ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found a notable interaction based on patients' prior history of kidney stones. Hypokalemia was more ...

LISBON — The diabetes and weight-loss drug semaglutide improves heart failure–related symptoms and physical limitations regardless of diuretic use in patients with obesity-related heart failure and ...

Thirst outcomes were investigated among patients with stable heart failure (HF), due to the limited data available on this relationship and how it, along with fluid and sodium intake, influences ...