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This Date in UCSF History: Mindfulness Meditation: Key to a Longer, Stress-Free Life?

[Originally published in Synapse on March 14, 2013.] During my first year of pharmacy school, I attended an alternative medicine Saturday elective where Dr. Dean Ornish spoke about the benefits of meditation and the effect it has on lengthening our chromosomal telomeres. Telomeres are portions of...

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