High blood pressure becomes treatable

The first unequivocally useful drug, 1964 Robust and practical sphygmomanometers (mercury and aneroid) became available in the early 1900s...

Outline Basic High blood pressure Terminology

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Proteinuria: a bad thing since 400 B.C.

Indicates risk of renal failure and death   Isaac Sarrabat 1600; Physician examining a urine flask.  (US National Library of Medicine)   Hip...

The Korean War 1950-3: acute dialysis finds its place

War medicine tests science and dialysis In June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea. After a rapid advance, their army was repulsed by Ame...

Insipid diabetes

A disease of 1769 becomes a treatment in 2015 The Edinburgh physician William Cullen described the difference between ‘sweet’ diabetes (mell...

The invention of diuretics

Dropsy becomes treatable in the 1960s Failure of pharmacological therapies in a woman with heart failure in 1964, right on the verge ...

Resume Basic hypertension Definition

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The birth of home dialysis

The first home haemodialysis, 1964 In the early 1960s dialysis was still a very new technology. It was high-tech, life-saving and dramatic. ...