Category: Cardiology

  The amount of blood moving through your blood vessels and the level of resistance the blood encounters while the heart is pounding are factors in measuring your blood pressure.  When the force of blood pressing through your vessels is regularly too high, you have high blood pressure, also known as hypertension or high blood […]

WHAT IS THE COMMON COLD?  The common cold is a respiratory ailment caused by a virus that infects your nose and throat (upper respiratory tract). It’s normally innocuous, even if it doesn’t feel like it. It can be caused by a variety of viruses.  Each year, healthy adults should expect to get two or three […]