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February 27, 2007
High Blood Pressure
February is National Heart Month, an annual campaign to alert people to the risks of heart disease. One risk factor is high blood pressure. But what does it mean to have high blood pressure? We asked Jim Neaton, a biostatistician at the University of Minnesota.
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February 20, 2007
It's National Condom Week
This week is National Condom Week, an awareness campaign that promotes the use of condoms for safe sex and unwanted pregnancies. But are all condoms safe? We asked Jim Rothenberger, a public health educator with the University of Minnesota.
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February 7, 2007
Health Care Communications and Patient Safety
Bill Riley, a healthcare management professor at the University of Minnesota, is working with hospitals to develop training to improve patient safety.
How? By reducing errors caused by breakdowns in hospital communications.
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