Blood pressure is the pressure of the blood in the arteries as the heart pumps it around the body. Blood pressure does not stay the same all the time - it changes to meet your body’s needs. If blood pressure remains high, it can lead to serious problems like a heart attack, stroke, heart failure or kidney disease.

Measuring Blood Pressure

Blood pressure is usually measured by an instrument called a sphygmomanometer. It is best to measure blood pressure when you are relaxed and sitting or lying down.  read more

It's the age old question: Can men and women be "just friends?"

The answer depends on who you ask.

In my experience, it seems that there are one of two scenarios going on in most close male/female friendships:

1. Both parties harbor secret feelings for one another and are afraid to confess it in case the other doesn't feel the same way and it ruins the friendship.  read more

Universal Search, announced one month back

Mountain View (CA) – Google’s core search engine has been walking down an evolutionary path, with new functionality being integrated almost silently over the course of the past years. At least for today, the perception of a gradually improving search engine has changed: Google announced a wave of new features that go well beyond integrated search: There is a new contextual search, access to experimental search features as well as an upcoming cross-language platform, which could bridge search results between different languages.  read more