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Anchor lead:  Should you manage your own blood pressure medicines? Elizabeth Tracey reports Many people with high blood pressure are capable of managing not just monitoring but also increasing or decreasing their medicines to keep blood pressure under control, a …

September 26, 2014 – Medicine Experience Read more »

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Anchor lead:  One day soon you may be called upon to manage your own blood pressure, Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood pressure is a tricky thing, going up temporarily in stressful situations like a doctor’s office.  So rather than rely on …

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Anchor lead:  Epigenetic changes are confirmed in several types of cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports What do lung, breast, colon and several other cancers have in common?  Research by Andrew Feinberg and colleagues at Johns Hopkins and Harvard has shown a …

September 23, 2014 – : Epigenetics and More Cancers Read more »

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Anchor lead:  New models for laboratory research help understand infections and inflammation better, Elizabeth Tracey reports Don’t be surprised if sometime soon your physician asks for a very small tissue sample from you to develop a laboratory model of one …

September 12, 2014 – Infection and Inflammation Read more »

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Headline:  Can a ‘human on a chip’ advance medical science faster than other models?  Elizabeth Tracey reports Medical research is a billion dollar undertaking that may soon be accelerated with use of stem cell technology.  Mark Donowitz, a gastroenterologist and …

September 11, 2014 – Chip Technology Read more »