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A story in today’s Boston Globe looking at how storytelling can lead to better health focuses on research by Thomas Houston II, MD, MPH, professor of quantitative health sciences and medicine, which found that pre-recorded videos of hypertension patients talking about their medical histories helped another group of patients with high blood pressure to control their condition over several months.
In other media:
Read about the research in this recent UMassMedNow story:
Storytelling may help control blood pressure in some populations
Huffington Post
Finding God and Health In The Experience of Storytelling
United Press International
Patients' story helps lower blood pressure
New York Times
Healing Through Storytelling
When Patients Share Their Stories, Health May Improve
Time
Thomas Houston II's research on how story-telling may help to lower blood pressure in African-Americans
Reuters
Storytelling" found to aid blood pressure control
HeartWire
Hypertension success stories boost BP control
EurekaAlert
Storytelling may help control blood pressure in African-Americans
