http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Veteran filmmaker David Lynch says US authorities should use more transcendental meditation to help soldiers returning from Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-filmmaker-david-lynch-touts-meditation.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 12 Apr 2013 04:43:39 EST news284960508 A significant percentage of veterans returning from wars exhibit symptoms of posttraumatic stress (PTS). This is now recognized as a serious health problem, but what about the victims of such violence? Refugees live with the constant reminder of what war has done to their lives and those of their families. A randomized/matched study published today in the April 2013 issue of Journal of Traumatic Stress (Volume 26, Issue 2, pp. 295-298.) measured the severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms in refugees in Africa before and after learning the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique. The reductions were dramatic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-transcendental-meditation-significantly-posttraumatic-stress.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:42:35 EST news284643744 US war veterans on Monday suggested meditation to help heal the post-war mental disturbances that afflict a growing number of American soldiers, including possibly the ex-Marine who gunned down the country's most famous sniper over the weekend. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-war-veterans-meditation-ptsd.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:00:03 EST news279261575 African Americans with heart disease who practiced Transcendental Meditation regularly were 48 percent less likely to have a heart attack, stroke or die from all causes compared with African Americans who attended a health education class over more than five years, according to new research published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-meditation-death-heart-patients.html Cardiology Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:00:03 EST news272044307 Regular meditation could decrease the risk of developing cardiovascular disease in teens who are most at risk, according to Georgia Health Sciences University researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-meditation-decrease-cardiovascular-disease-teens.html Health Thu, 07 Jun 2012 04:10:02 EST news258260215