Gina Kolata New York Times

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  Study Testing Blood Pressure Says Go Lower

  For years doctors have been uncertain what the optimal goal should be for patients with high blood pressure. The aim of course is to bring it down, but how far and how aggressively remained a mystery.

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  Blood Pressure, the Mystery Number

  Almost half a century after rigorous studies, researchers still do not know just how low blood pressure should go.

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  Shorter Stature May Pose Higher Risk of Heart Disease

  A person who is 5 feet tall has a 30 percent greater chance of developing heart disease than someone who is 5-foot-6, said a lead author of the new study.

• For First Time, Treatment Helps Patients With The Worst Kind of Stroke

  After three decades of failure, researchers have found a treatment that greatly improves the prognosis for people having the most severe and disabling strokes.

• Study Finds Alternative to Anti-Cholesterol Drug

  For the first time since statins have been regularly used, a large study has found that another type of cholesterol-lowering drug can protect people from heart attacks and strokes. The finding can help millions at high risk of heart attacks who cannot...

• Spinal-fluid test is found to predict Alzheimer's

  Researchers report that a spinal fluid test can be 100 percent accurate in identifying patients with significant memory loss who are on their way to developing Alzheimer's disease.Although there has been increasing evidence of the value of this and other tests in finding signs of Alzheimer's, the study, which will appear Tuesday in the Archives of ...