Women’s marathon world record holder Ruth Chepngetich has been banned for three years for a violation of anti-doping rules.

The AIU said that while diuretics are known to be abused by athletes to mask the presence in urine of other prohibited ...

Chepngetich smashed the marathon record in Chicago last October, and was provisionally suspended for doping in July.

Women's marathon world record holder Ruth Chepngetich is banned for three years after the Kenyan admits to anti-doping rule ...

Track and field's Athletics Integrity Unit said Chepng'etich admitted anti-doping rule violations over the presence and use ...

Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich, who smashed the record at last year’s Chicago Marathon, is under further investigation for what ...

Thiazide-related diuretics are recommended as first-line treatment in most hypertension guidelines and have been shown to be especially beneficial in resistant and salt-sensitive forms of hypertension ...

Combination therapy using irbesartan and hydrochlorothiazide was shown to effectively lower blood pressure levels in a large group of hypertensive patients. “The INCLUSIVE [Irbesartan/HCTZ blood ...

June 16, 2009 (Milan, Italy) - Hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ), the most commonly employed blood-pressure-lowering drug in the US, used at the usual doses prescribed--12.5 mg to 25 mg/per day--is a "paltry ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- One of the most commonly first prescribed medicines for high blood pressure is hydrochlorothiazide or HCTZ. "It's a very inexpensive medication, and is effective for blood ...

U.S. experts favor chlorthalidone over hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) in the first-line treatment of hypertension. Yet practicing doctors are approximately 20-fold more likely to choose HCTZ over ...

A drug company on Friday announced the recall of eight more lots of irbesartan blood pressure medication after testing revealed the drugs contained trace amounts of a carcinogen. Prinston ...