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...emotional attachment to horses as in the small-animal world," Harman says. "It used to be if your dog got sick, you just got a new dog. Now people want the best care, and they want to pay for it." At the start of the year, Vet-Stem's patient pool was 90% horses and 10% dogs. By the end of 2008, Harman estimates those numbers will shift to 60% dogs, 10% cats and 30% horses - no doubt aided by word-of-mouth praise from pet owners like Waters. "It's comforting for me to know I've done what...
...that hypertension is a particularly good condition to treat with home-based strategies, say both Jones and Green. Like weight-loss support groups and 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...
...company was launched in 1999, it has its origins in a solar start-up that had been around since the mid-1980s. First Solar spent years tinkering before moving to mass production. It was able to weather those early days of profitless experimentation because it had a rich, patient backer: Wal-Mart heir John Walton, who pumped $250 million into First Solar before his death...
High cholesterol. Soaring blood pressure. A fatty liver. Dangerously elevated insulin levels. Even a first-year medical student could recognize the signs of a middle-aged patient struggling with weight problems and diabetes and probably heading for a heart attack...
...identity) listened to the changes she'd have to make in her 4-year-old son's diet and seemed a little daunted. "I'm still trying to process it all," she said a few days later. But Rachel's child is more fortunate than many of Ludwig's patients. The family lives in Brookline--in fact, right next to a Whole Foods store--so buying the healthy staples of a new and better diet wouldn't be that difficult. (Weaning her son off the snack food Pirate's Booty, she admitted, might be another story.) But not everyone...