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TM Reduces Risk of Mortality, Heart Attack and Stroke by 47%

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Can Meditation Curb Heart Attacks?

The New York Times • November 20, 2009
[Excerpt] “When Julia Banks was almost 70, she took up transcendental meditation. She had clogged arteries, high blood pressure and too much weight around the middle, and she enrolled in a clinical trial testing the benefits of meditation.” Full Story

Reduced High Blood Pressure and Psychological Stress in College Students

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Try Meditation to Lower Your Blood Pressure and Protect Your Heart

U.S. News and World Report • November 18, 2009
[Excerpt] ] Meditation is no longer just for the groovy folk. A just published study in the American Journal of Hypertension suggests the practice may bring cardiovascular and mental-health benefits. Full Story

New NIH Grant at Columbia on Preventing Heart Disease

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Can Stress-Reducing Transcendental Meditation Help CHD Patients Prevent Future Heart Attacks?

Medical News Today • November 9, 2009
[Excerpt] The National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute will fund a $1 million collaborative study by the Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management Research Institute and Columbia University Medical Center to determine whether the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique can help patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) prevent future heart attacks, strokes and death. Full Story

Reduced Stress and Improved Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients

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Transcendental meditation helps breast cancer patients

The Times of India • October 14, 2009
[Excerpt] The Transcendental Meditation technique reduces stress and improves mental health and emotional well-being among women with breast cancer says a new study. The study, "A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of Transcendental Meditation on Quality of Life in Older Breast Cancer Patients", has been published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed Integrative Cancer Therapies. Full Story

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