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AMA offers 6 tips to improve heart health, prevent heart attack

AMA is offering tips to help reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in the millions of Americans currently living with high blood pressure.

Press Releases
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These med students learn to motivate lifestyle changes

Too many physicians are ill-equipped to help patients to do the hard work of changing harmful health behaviors. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is working to change that.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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These factors interfere with physicians’ IT adoption

Physicians are eager for digital health solutions that give them back more face-to-face time with patients.

Digital
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Hypertension coaches help med students look beyond Rx for high BP

By teaching motivational interviewing and identifying barriers, these coaches show medical students the power of lifestyle change.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
The Culinary Medicine Conference™ 2017 in New Orleans
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Turning up the heat in the kitchen to lower BP in practice

Patients who prepare their own healthful meals are likelier to make progress in blood-pressure control. Tulane’s medical school is training med students to help make that goal reality.

Hypertension
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5 MIN READ

Experts weigh in on achieving quick improvements in BP control

Physicians gather to discuss hypertension control and how practices can adjust to evidence-based BP protocols.

Hypertension
AMA AHA Recognition Badges for Target BP
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More than 300 organizations honored for BP-control efforts

Participation in the AMA’s Target: BP Recognition Program helps physicians contribute to improving the national blood pressure control rate.

Hypertension
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10 New Year’s resolutions for your health and your family’s

The new date on the calendar offers everyone another opportunity to follow this advice to improve and maintain health.

Public Health
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AMA offers 10 recommendations for successful New Year’s resolutions

With the new year approaching, the American Medical Association is offering recommendations to help Americans make healthy lifestyle choices in 2018.

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