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Bananas are commonly considered the go-to source for your daily intake of potassium -- but, as it turns out, there are 17 ...

MIT-led research uncovered chemical remnants of the proto Earth, offering a glimpse of the planet’s 4.5-billion-year-old ...

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Diet and medication are the best ways to lower potassium levels and avoid severe hyperkalemia — a serious condition marked by ...

Bananas are a great source of potassium, a mineral that is vital for overall health. But there is another fruit that delivers ...

Water levels in parts of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers are likely to reach critically low stages soon, forcing shippers to light-load harvest-season grain barges for the fourth year in a row.

A common drug used to treat high blood pressure may have more side effects than doctors once thought. Researchers at Columbia University have been studying a medicine called chlorthalidone and found ...

Close to half of all U.S. corn, soybeans and wheat exports move through the Mississippi River system, making it one of the most important export corridors in the world. Over the past five years, an ...

Despite strong evidence that salt substitutes can safely lower sodium intake and reduce high blood pressure, very few Americans use them. A new analysis of nearly 20 years of national health data ...

Researchers from National Taiwan University Hospital and Academia Sinica have identified a simple blood marker that can reliably pinpoint chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients at negligible risk of ...

Increasing plasma potassium levels to the high-normal range can improve outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) at high risk of ventricular arrhythmias, a randomised trial has found.