Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is an all-too-common health condition among Americans. It persists mostly because of unhealthy habits, and carries with it even more serious health risks. According the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “About 1 of 3 U.S. adults—or about 75 million people—have high blood pressure. Only about half (54%)…
Day: April 26, 2019
Are You Helping Create Superbugs?
In the past decade or so, abuse and misuse of antibiotics have become widespread; combined with the continued development of new and better drugs, antibiotic resistance has become a serious global health threat. Bacteria have learned to adapt themselves to the antibiotic agents that were meant to kill them and have developed resistance to these…