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News about TM from around the world
47% reduction in heart disease, stroke and death in the elderly
Brazil - major programme for stressed schoolchildren
USA - $1million for heart disease prevention study
17 November 2009 - The annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando, Florida on Nov.16, heard a report of a nine-year long study on patients with coronary heart disease who practiced the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation® technique. The study found that the patients had nearly 50 percent lower rates of heart attack, stroke, and death compared to nonmeditating controls.
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6 November 2009 - On 29 October 2009, a grand celebration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, inaugurated the new initiative of the national government to implement the Transcendental Meditation Programme in the city's public school system. Speeches by celebrity performing artists and government officials recognized benefits of the programme for students and schools, as well as the prospect of creating invincibility for the city, the nation, the continent, and the world.
7 November 2009 - NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute provides $1 million for new study at Columbia University Medical Center
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.
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