On the heels of a deadlier-than-normal flu season, some scientists are wondering what will happen when a true pandemic hits. Vaccine doses would likely dry up—but cheap, readily available medications like statins could help a patient stave off flu as the virus runs its course, a pair of researchers told NPR.

Three pediatrics professors teamed up for an editorial in The New York Times imploring readers to lump juice into the unhealthy beverage category alongside soda.

School programs that provide fresh fruits and vegetables and limit the availability of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) could prevent an estimated 22,383 deaths due to cardiometabolic disease each year in the U.S., researchers calculated in a study published July 6 in PLOS One.

In a study of nearly 25,000 children, those whose mothers adhered to five healthy lifestyle factors carried a 75 percent lower risk of obesity than children whose mothers had none of those habits.

Patients with resistant hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) experienced significant drops in blood pressure and improvements in OSA severity following renal denervation, according to a small randomized trial published June 25 in Hypertension.

According to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, women with preeclampsia with severe features (PEC) have higher right ventricular (RV) systolic pressure (RVSP) and decreased global right ventricular longitudinal systolic strain (RVLSS), among other adverse cardiovascular events, compared to women not exhibiting preeclampsia during pregnancy.

Sleep disturbances, including poor sleep quality and insomnia, are associated with increased blood pressure and vascular inflammation in women, according to a June 9 study in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

A new study published in Hypertension suggests tailoring blood pressure (BP) treatment to a patient’s exercise level may help, because people with elevated but controlled hypertension saw an increase in BP during physical activity.