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A man checks his own blood pressure using an at-home machine. Researchers hope to expand the range of at-home medical care with new tests and devices.

The doctor’s office of the future might be your living room

December 19, 2014Medicine

You can already do things like check your blood pressure or heart rate pretty easily at home, but doctors and researchers are coming up with ways to get a much wider range of medicine into the hands of patients themselves.

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