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I hear you about side effects. Personally, I find the side effects of high blood pressure, cholesterol and blood glucos...
If Doctor's Office Robots are any indication, they need to have their blood pressure tested regular!...
Using politics to get attention while marketing your investment newsletter is extremely common, I think it was really pi...
About a month ago I watched a youtube doctor video talking about taking a teaspoon of beetroot powder every day for bloo...
I’m not sure if this is it but I know Brian Feroldi writes for TMF. Brian was on The Investors Podcast recently (ep...
My sister in law died 40 days after receiving her 2nd jab from Moderna. She died of a stroke, but was under doctor's car...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqKfL3z5yM4 This was a 60 minutes show about the brain deposits of patients over 90. It...
I suggest that some of you need to add a unique new due diligence for your mind. I am quite serious as most people are ...
While usually impressed with Doc Gumshoe analysis, this treatise tends to show him out of his depth. The mention of u...
I am an obese senior citizen who walks to & from the bus stop once a day, every single day. I "chew the fat" with ...
I read with interest about taking blood pressure reducing meds at night. I used to take mine in the morning but a few y...
That is just not true, there are many cures in medicine, including antibiotics, many orthopedic procedures like joint...
Thanks for another well researched reveal on George Gilder, Travis. Contrary to 'Judy', below, I found it very useful....
The very mention of CLNE elevated my blood pressure! I invested a sizable $ on brother in law suggestion (I knew bet...
Dr Linus Pauling discovered that inflamation in blood vessels is caused by inadequate levels of vitamin C, which alowed ...
Statins are dangerous, and often come with many side effects that are worse than the problem they are trying to correct!...
I'm 88. My blood pressure measures in the range of 120/65 +/- 5; pulse usually around 60 except mornings ~55. Not diabet...
It´s hardly Big Pharma being the problem, but the price. Here in Europe these instruments are paid for by the health in...
Hey Doc: Nitric Oxide is reported to help lower blood pressure so is said to be heart healthy. Ketamine inhibits it??...
Michael, regarding the Vascular Hypothesis and imaging studies showing no increase in blood flow that one might expect f...
AUZ no position...I find AUZ distasteful also, shameless spinning and sloppy management. I just laugh at their puffing t...
Doc told me I had high blood pressure. Gave me Valsartan. Took it 2 days and went off- bad SE's. Got on a treadmill, ate...
If this gel works and is approved by the FDA it would eliminate a problem that some of my friends have where they cannot...
The funny thing is....it might be Diamedics. KLK1 levels fall with age, and blood pressure rises while perfusion is poor...
$BLPH nervous long H.C. Wainwright initiates coverage on Bellerophon Therapeutics (NASDAQ: BLPH) with a Buy rating and ...
Casey: thanks for a clear-eyed post that lays out many aspects of what's now going on at and with Vistagen. I will defin...
I've long believed that the problem is as much weak arteries and veins as high blood pressure. They get weak over time ...
"I'll say this for high blood pressure: it's a lot better than no blood pressure at all." Attributed to Louis B. Mayer...
Also if you research further you will find that us older people actually need a higher blood pressure to get the require...
I am puzzled that doctors never consider the likelihood that, for older persons, the actual blood pressure inside the ar...
Nonsense! The new blood pressure guidelines are designed to sell more blood pressure medicine so pharma magnates can buy...
I'd suggest voice-to-text apps that you can then cut and paste into comments - but given all the drug and stock termino...
Well, didn't see this one coming. Half an hour ago, TransEnterix announced a major Chinese marketing deal for SurgiBot. ...
$Noticker: Interesting Quanta Magazine (from the Simonds Foundation) article about a smell receptor (Oflr78) found in th...
Well said. My eye doctor has been trying for years to get me to take needle injections of a drug directly into my eyebal...
I recently had a heart attack 10/29 to say the least. None of what you have posted seems to fit. The heart attacks had a...
Wow, $5,000 is one of the highest subscriptions around.... and they're only offering one suggestion to start.... which...
$EYEGHi EyedocI had a retinal vein occlusion (blood vessel bursts behind eye and you are blind in that eye) se...
Thanks prageav....a certain irony is that when it comes here to trying to teach people about the virtues of voclosporin,...
I, too, am a firm believer in the low carb diet (pioneered by Atkins, now seen in South Beach, Paleo, etc.) The USDA Fo...
$MGMagnesium is a potent vasodilator. It lowers my blood pressure significantly when taken either orally or in the f...
$BLPHA nice, lucid article published on a professional website, with key information about Bellerophon's innovative ...
On lisinopril: I was prescribed lisinopril years ago for high blood pressure. I developed a persistent cough, which hun...
Thanks Eph97! On the weight of current evidence Berberine does seem to have the best of Metformin's benefits, with pract...
$AUPH (long)Voclosporin update from company:Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (AUPH)(AUP.TO) (“Aurinia” or the ...
Hi Doc,I too was in acute rehab last month for about 10 days after 3 days in the hospital following back surgery. T...
Rick: I have to offer a heartfelt congratulations because if that's what you've come up with, I feel you've done fine wo...
No $ticker. Looking for thoughts/help for my 85 year old Uncle. Suffering from uncontrollable diarrhea most every day. ...
Akari emerged out of the work on Miles Nunn, DPhil, an Oxford biochemist who took a post-doctoral position with a Britis...
I used HIIT every other day for 20 minutes (3 sets of max out for 25 seconds followed by 5 minutes of slower pedaling) o...
$ZFGN (long). I'm more interested in what doctors are willing to prescribe versus what patients want. Too many of th...
Bad genes? You? I doubt it! But genes adapt us for life in different settings. If you were with a group of people on the...
Thank you JohnM, your knowledge will keep my blood pressure down. Very long ARTH....
As a long term sufferer of inflammation ( I am over 80 years of age), with decades of High Blood Pressure frequently ove...
An interesting article fresh from the press of Lancet (1/11/2017)"Study unveils how stress may increase risk of hear...
The pipeline of "brain peptides" that Palatin has are things I would view as very speculative and little to bank on. Rem...
I vote for Myron over Dave S.Dave S position seems more theoretical than reality. Nearly all of my friends and clos...
FOR SURE !!! that is the idea behind the medical prospects and application of MEMs. sense your blood pressure, heart bea...
The intranasal route gives absorption that's too rapid and causes surging blood pressure. Bremelanotide is a small enoug...
$PTN have searched Tropic of Palatin and elsewhere, but couldn't find what I was looking for. My question is: can breme...
Hi analog: CTIX continues to drift towards being an investment grade equity. My read of the situation is that the compan...
Giraffes have the highest blood pressure in the mammal world. How do they keep from having strokes when grazing on grass...
$500M US sales, $1.5B ex-US, $2B globally. If they hustle, they can have BLA approval for marketing in 1H2018 by submitt...
twa14, you are awesome to provide the blood pressure discussion thread; believe the comments relating to the discussion ...
rpalmer also check this link and thread for more recent discussion on blood pressure: search on 'amlodipine' http://w...
rpalmer, this link and sub posts may be helpful on the blood pressure discussion. http://www.stockgumshoe.com/2016/03/li...
Can anyone steer me to the original discussion re blood pressure? I am going in next Monday to discuss my bp problems w...
To Dr.KSS A couple of months ago there was a short discussion on the threads concerning high blood pressure. I added my...
$PTN. There was no change in the treatment period. It had been set at 24 weeks, not 32 weeks. The patients were dosed to...
Hi: There's no evidence of melanocortin receptor-4 downregulation with continued stimulation. I think there's a possibil...
I wanted to devote some time this morning to TG Therapeutics because it's a long idea that I don't feel we've covered we...
This surprised me.Researchers from Zhengzhou University in China reveal an exciting discovery relevant to an easy wa...
How bad is the blood pressure issue I wonder?...
Hi niizajim: Thanks for posting and bringing up Kitov $KTOV. For home gamers, this is an Israeli biotech that got a SPA ...
http://www.stockgumshoe.com/2015/11/the-manchurian-candida/comment-page-15/#comment-4612184 also has warrants: JYOUNG007...
Thank you for exposing the hyperbolic BS being presented in most of these info-spams (did I just invent a new term?). T...
I wish them well, but of course setmelanotide does not compete with bremelanotide. Setmelanotide treats the hyperphagia ...
Peter here is the main part of the report on RLYP put out by Stifel.ile represent After today’s (June 27) market...
Nice study with RLYP with effects of Veltassa on blood pressure and Aldosterone.http://www.kidney-international.org/...
$RLYP http://seekingalpha.com/pr/16531600-results-pre-specified-exploratory-analysis-phase-3-opal-hk-study-evaluating-e...
These Common Medications Cause Dementia and Brain Shrinkage Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medi...
Your kind remark motivated me to do a little more looking. There are about 871,000 people with end stage renal disease...
More on sleep/sleep induction and relationship of sleep and Alzheimer’s:http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnew...
Prior authorization isn't going away. The label will not "improve." If what is meant by label improvement is deletion of...
$RLYP: Interesting points from the comments section in article on SA.Time is on RLYP's side:1. Only one-third of...
With all due respect to anesthesiologists, they really don't know much about what is going on inside the surgical field....
Hey 8 hate pills and meds... I don't normally buy supplements but my VA doctor freaked me out. My cholesterol was bad an...
This is a topic that interests me a lot. High blood pressure runs in my family and seems I am currently pre hypertensive...
long $RLYP Dr. KSS, Speaking of Veltessa, do you think it is good for patients with a long history of very high blood ...
It's an interesting drug in that it appears to have some vasodilatory activity based on potentiation of nitric oxide ela...
$RLYP long - #Veltassa lowers bp significantly, wow! via Helen Ong @Lin_ling_88 May 4 Helen Ong Retweeted Rajesh ...
twa14 - I had high blood pressure in the 170/110 range. Doc put me on losartan, which brought it down to 140/90 range. A...
For TWA 14: Like Tanglewood, I am not an MD and can only share the following personal anecdotal observations and conce...
Hi TWA14; I am not a doctor. I have borderline high blood pressure (around 140 + or - 10). but your's sounds dangerously...
I was recently prescribed Lisinopril for high blood pressure but have as yet not taken them. I would like to ask both yo...
$PTN - Dr. KSS: Question, does natural strong sexual desire cause blood pressure increase? Long $PTN...
Hi Don....great post. In 2014, we talked a lot in these threads about Palatin $PTN, a NYC firm with licenses to a number...
$PTN (I’m long) I noticed a sharp increase in the price today, up 14.37%, so thought I’d see if I could find a reas...
RLYP: All of the actions by the CEO and the board of Relypsa says that they are in it for the long haul. From their arra...