Mindfulness Training Helps Lower Blood Pressure

Mindfulness training helps lower blood pressure

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Becoming mindful – focusing attention and awareness on the moment – may sound like a New Age mantra, but researchers from Ohio claim that it can lower blood pressure to the extent that it could prevent or delay the need for drug intervention. The study …
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Shutdown impact: Gov't urges furlough compassion

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The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say they can handle recalls and high-risk foodborne outbreaks, but discovering them will be more difficult because many of the people who investigate outbreaks have been …
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Stress leads some doctors to abuse prescription drugs

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In general, the reasons the doctors cited for their drug abuse are "typical of what we see among physicians in treatment," said Dr. J. Randle Adair, of the substance-abuse treatment center Hazelden. "Recreational use of these drugs is pretty low on the …
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Blood pressure drug may improve cancer treatment

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… used for over a decade in patients and could be repurposed for cancer treatment," explained senior author Rakesh K. Jain, PhD, director of the Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston and Cook Professor …
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