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Incorrect arm position when your blood pressure is being measured may result in a mistakenly high reading, a study by Tammy Brady, a cardiovascular health promotion expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Brady says since home blood pressure …

If you measure your own blood pressure, pay attention to your arm position, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Vital signs like blood pressure may be measured by a number of clinicians during a medical visit, and all of them need to be trained and recertified periodically. That’s according to Tammy Brady, a cardiovascular health promotion expert at Johns …

Taking a blood pressure right is more complicated than it might seem, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

High blood pressure is associated with cardiovascular events like heart attacks and strokes, so keeping it under control is important. Yet many times blood pressures are measured without consideration for arm position, resulting in higher readings than would be seen …

How high might your blood pressure be if your arm isn’t properly positioned? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Turns out when you get your blood pressure measured, arm position is critical. That’s according to a study led by Tammy Brady, a cardiovascular health promotion expert at Johns Hopkins, who showed that suboptimal arm positions increase the top number …

What should your arm position be if you’re having your blood pressure measured? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

One of the most important things you can do to prevent the number one cause of death – cardiovascular disease – is to keep your blood pressure under control, and that starts with measuring it. Tammy Brady, a cardiovascular health …

Accurate blood pressure measurement is harder than it seems, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Can you trust a video game to help your child with ADHD, depression or anxiety? A new study by Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Barry Bryant surveyed the field of such games to find out more about them. Bryant: There were some …

Just how are video games to help manage mental health conditions in children developed? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Just how does a video game designed to help kids with ADHD, depression and anxiety differ from other video games? Barry Bryant, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, recently completed a study looking at such games and has some observations. Bryant: …

What characterizes a video game designed to help kids with mental health issues? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

if you’re using a gaming program to help a child with ADHD, depression or anxiety, these technologies work best if they are done on a computer. That’s one finding of a study surveying video games to help with these mental …

Having kids using mental health care gaming works best at a computer, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Can video games help children and adolescents with mental health issues like anxiety, ADHD or depression? A Johns Hopkins study led by psychiatrist Barry Bryant aimed to find out. Bryant: What we found were about 30 randomized controlled trials looking …

What does a survey of video games to help kid’s mental health show? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

Mental health issues are skyrocketing among US youth, data shows. Barry Bryant, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, wondered whether technology might be able to step into this gap with a recent study looking at video games for three common mental …

Can video games help fill in the gap between kids who need mental health care and the dearth of providers? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »