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Pharmacist-Guided Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Study found combination led to better control of hypertension WebMD News from HealthDay By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Using home blood pressure monitoring and partnering with a pharmacist for lifestyle advice and medication changes led to better control of hypertension, a new study shows.

LAST Tuesday, Connor Moran, a limit-the-red-meat, increase-the-greens, eat-salad-for-lunch kind of guy, stopped into a Bronx Dunkin' Donuts for his usual black coffee, no sugar, no cream. He walked out with a sandwich of egg and bacon between two halves of a glazed doughnut.

YOU want a trip to Kellogg - the birthplace of Honey Smacks, Apple Jacks and countless other sugar-slathered classics - to feel like a visit to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. But the company's Institute for Food and Nutrition Research just won't play along.

Obesity and the form of diabetes linked to it are taking an even worse toll on America's youth than medical experts had realized. As obesity rates in children have climbed, so has the incidence of type 2 diabetes, and a new study adds another worry: the disease progresses more rapidly in children than in adults, and is harder to treat.

Friends Influence How Active Kids Are Research Has Implications for Preventing Child Obesity May 28, 2012 -- Kids who like to be active can influence others to do the same, or at least that's what new research finds.

June 5, 2012 Consumers are more likely to follow you on Pinterest or Twitter than they are on Facebook, a new study shows. According to the 2012 Social and Mobile Commerce Study-a joint research project by the National Retail Federation's Shop.org, comScore and The Partnering Group consultancy-customers say they were following fewer retailers because of concerns about information sharing and privacy.

Whether you know it or not, you will sell something today. "We are all in sales," insists Daniel Pink, author of To Sell Is Human -whether it's talking up your skills to get a promotion, convincing your kids of the merits of a new bedtime routine, or proving your romantic virtues to a possible partner.

DR. PIETER COHEN is scanning the shelves inside a shop in Chinatown here when something familiar - and potentially dangerous - catches his eye. "What's that yellow box, behind the other one?" Dr. Cohen asks the clerk.