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...There is certainly troubling anecdotal evidence that some of the girls set out to get pregnant together, though Mayor Kirk went to great lengths to deny any evidence of a "blood-oath bond." But other girls, like Lindsey Oliver, tell of a different kind of collaboration: "There was a group of girls already pregnant that decided they were going to help each other to finish school and raise their kids together," she told Good Morning America. Which raises the question: What if the "problem" in evidence at Gloucester High has more to do with the rejection of abortion than...
...heirs and caretakers of freedom - a blessing preserved with the blood of heroes down through the ages. One cannot go to Arlington Cemetery and see name upon name, grave upon grave, row upon row, without being deeply moved by the sacrifice made by those young men and women...
...kind of application of technology," says Dr. Daniel Jones, president of the American Heart Association and dean of the school of medicine at University of Mississippi Medical Center. "We have been using the standard approach for many years with disappointing results. Only about one-third of patients with high blood pressure have it controlled properly, and among those on treatment, only half are able to control their blood pressure...
Among the more than 700 patients in the study, 258 were put into a standard physician-care group, with regular office visits. The remainder were divided into two self-care groups: in the first, patients had access to their electronic medical records and were instructed to measure their own blood pressure two to three times each week; patients then sent the results to their physician, who recorded the readings in files the patients could review. In the other group, patients performed the same self-measurements, but were also provided access to a pharmacist who evaluated their readings and helped patients...
...exercise programs, pharmacist-assisted self-monitoring keeps patients motivated and compliant with their treatment - and, in some cases, may prevent the disease from becoming serious enough to require pharmaceutical treatment. Most physicians also acknowledge that more frequent monitoring is likely more accurate: doctors take only one or two blood pressure measurements a year, when patients come into the office, but those readings can be influenced by a patient's stress or tenseness in the doctor's office (the "white coat syndrome"), and blood pressure can vary from day to day or even during a single day, depending on what...