High blood pressure increases the risk for major health problems, like heart failure, stroke, kidney damage, blindness.

If blood pressure drops too low, the heart muscle may not get enough oxygen.

One study found risk for a heart attack doubles when diastolic pressure is lower than 70 and quadruples when diastolic pressure drops below 60.

While the majority of women use soap and water on their hands after using the bathroom, men often need blunt reminders to lather up, according to research on hygiene habits conducted by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

A 12-year-old will walk and raise money to end a life-threatening, genetic kidney disease during the Charleston Walk for PKD.

Surviving cancer was a life-changing experience for these top cancer experts, even though they’d spent their careers helping patients fight the illness — but it wasn’t until they were the patients that they learned a lot about what it really takes to keep yourself healthy.

20 Marines, or sons of Marines were based at or lived at Camp Lejeune between the 1960s and the 1980s. They all have had breast cancer and they blame their time at Camp Lejeune, where records show drinking water was contaminated with high levels of toxic chemicals for three decades.

Because of the threat of H1N1 flu, the Centers for Disease Control has changed its recommendations on who should get the pneumonia shot. Between the pneumonia shot, the seasonal flu shot and the upcoming swine flu shot ... what shots should you get?

With concerns about swine flu, or H1N1 virus, using hand sanitizer has become even more popular. Bottles of the alcohol-based formula are almost everywhere, from offices to college campuses, but does it really work? Doctors say: Yes!

You know that fat in your body you wish you didn’t have? It turns out those cells could be used to create stem cells that one day may be able to cure disease.

A study, published in the journal Neurology, is the largest to look at the link between high blood pressure and memory problems.

Women with a family history of breast cancer may have a new weapon against the disease: breast-feeding.

Patients with conditions like arthritis, asthma, migraines, diabetes, heart disease and even pregnancy can all be affected by the weather. But now a new web based service sends out alerts people of the weather, so they have time to prepare accordingly.

In 1990, Mama’s Kitchen in San Diego started delivering free meals to aids patients and has since expanded to include other critical diseases like cancer and in the past two decades it adds up to almost five million meals.

Each year, thousands of people with different forms of cancer turn to the National Bone Marrow Registry for transplants. Seven million people are listed on the registry, but a very small percentage of them are from minority groups.

Michael Jackson’s signature habits seem to confirm that he struggled with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disorder.  Jackson’s physician, Dr. Arnie Klein, Jackson’s physician, says he diagnosed Jackson with lupus, a disease in which the body comes under attack from its own immune system.

Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that can affect various parts of the body, especially the skin, joints, blood, and kidneys.
About 1.5 million Americans have some form of lupus. 70 percent of patients have systemic Lupus erythematosus, or SLE. 
SLE can affect many different tissues and organs of the body.
Treatments can have significant side effects and don’t always prevent progression of the disease.