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...from his daily 2 1/2 mile walks, Ronnie Ho, 57, doesn't look as if he's suffering from high blood pressure. Nor is he. At its peak two years ago, Ho's blood pressure clocked in at 140/90, slightly above normal but not high enough to elicit a pill or much alarm. But when he went to see Dr. Ting Choon Meng, the Singapore general practitioner decided to monitor Ho's blood pressure with a black plastic wristwatch he had designed and named the BPro. The device, worn for 24 hours, revealed a wave pattern showing how fast...
Strange as it may seem, that is a question that some residents of Portland, Me. will have to wrestle with after the school board last week passed a measure allowing an independently-run clinic at a local middle school to distribute prescription-strength birth control pills without parental permission. Any student wishing to receive the pills will have to undergo counseling and be examined by a physician or nurse who can prescribe the drugs. And parents do have to sign a waiver to give their children access to any of the clinic’s services. But the decision...
Local health officials told The New York Times that the decision was made to distribute the pill at the middle school in light of the fact that 17 students there have become pregnant in the past few years. Their argument was that if a small minority of the school is sexually active, the school should provide the resources to all, regardless of their age, to protect that minority. Although these circumstances may have precipitated the need for such a measure, providing the pill to middle school students without parental permission is nonetheless inappropriate and contradictory to the purpose of public...
...where peer pressure can cause students to do things they later regret. While it has not been shown that easy access to birth control increases sexual activity among students, it certainly doesn’t deter them or require them to carefully consider their options. Instead of dispensing these pills, the school should focus on a comprehensive sexual education curriculum that informs the students of the risks involved with sexual activity as well as the side effects of birth control. If a school district decides that it is absolutely necessary that it provide guidance and assistance to students who require...
...self-characterized graphomaniac and author of seven novels including “Snow” and “My Name is Red,” Pamuk reminisced about the burgeoning of his compulsion to write. “I argue that just like some people need a pill every day, I need some time to be alone in a room...to write every day. If I do that, I’m okay. If I don’t do that, I’m upset,” he said. Pamuk was asked by an audience member...