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Music therapy can lower blood pressure, and help relax and ease anxiety for a patient who is about to undergo an ocular procedure.

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New hope offered by a pharmacy team for treating heart disease by sharing insights into the fundamental process of how the heart is formed in utero.

From his lab at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy Drug Discovery Institute, Mingfu Wu, associate professor, is ...

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