Meditation may help improve endothelial function in patients with metabolic syndrome, potentially reducing cardiovascular risk. Medscape Medical News
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eating patients in a quiet room alone in the doctor’s office, with blood-pressure measurements taken automatically every five minutes for half an hour, is as good at detecting white-coat and masked hypertension as ambulatory daytime BP monitoring. Heartwire
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Two lots of concentrated sodium chloride Injection are being voluntarily recalled because of particulate matter. Medscape Medical News
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One court will rule on a lower-court decision striking down the new law’s requirement to obtain insurance coverage; another court will consider a ruling that affirms the “individual mandate.” Medscape Medical News
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — It was a slow week on Capitol Hill but elsewhere advisory groups were grinding out advice as Medicare advisers said doctors should get a small pay bump for 2012 and FDA advisers slammed big tobacco for adding menthol to cigarettes.
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(MedPage Today) — Individual cancer risk from airport body scanners is probably small, but the sheer volume passing through these backscatter x-ray devices could result in an increased population risk, one researcher says. Another isn’t so sure.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Removing menthol from cigarettes would improve public health, according to a report from the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee.
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(MedPage Today) — As Japanese workers try to avert more damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and residents flee the area, doctors struggle to maintain basic medical services in the wake of the earthquake and resulting tsunami.
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BETHESDA, Md. (MedPage Today) — The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has announced its 10-year strategic plan for diabetes research.
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(MedPage Today) — GAITHERSBURG, Md. — An FDA advisory panel has unanimously recommended approval of the investigational Pipeline Embolization Device to wall off large intracranial aneurysms in patients who are unlikely to respond to currently available treatments.
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