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What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

Depending on your personal medical history and open discussion with your physician, this will guide your treatment plan. The Joint National Committee 2003 defines hypertension as systolic of 140 mmHg and higher or diastolic 90 mmHg and higher. At that time, you may need to start to incorporate blood pressure medications.

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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

200-400 AD) Metrodora, a Greek female physician, wrote On the Diseases and Cures of Women, the oldest medical text known to be written by a woman. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) British-born Elizabeth Blackwell is best known as the first woman to earn an medical degree (MD) in the US. Metrodora (c.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. So, we formed this organization called Pain and Palliative Care Society in the Northern Kerala city of Kalakkad based in the government medical college. Raj: That’s one of the high tech medical absurdities that we have developed.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. You’re a disgruntled medical student. It’s 1974.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

So we realized that we had a series of cross-sectional studies in San Francisco from the early 1990s to 2003. We looked at it and realized that in the early 1990s, 11% of folks were 50 and over, and by 2003, 37% were. White folks who are homeless are often folks who have cut ties with their families for a variety of reasons.

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A Vitamin K Deficient Bleeding AKA Hemorrhagic disease of the newborn podcast

PEMBlog

Pediatrics 2003 July; 112(1):191-2. Well, families state that they have concerns about the preservative in the injection, maybe that it could cause autism. So there was 1 study published in the British Medical Journal in 1990. Controversies Concerning Vitamin K and the Newborn. Ross, JA, Davies SM. Med Pediatr Oncol.