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What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

The Joint National Committee 2003 defines hypertension as systolic of 140 mmHg and higher or diastolic 90 mmHg and higher. Dr. Hannah Do MD Family Medicine Physician The post What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) appeared first on Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine.

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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

She was raised in a forward-thinking, socially active family. Curie earned a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, and yet another in Chemistry in 1911, the first and only woman to have been honoured twice. Source The post Influential women in the history of medicine appeared first on Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine.

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

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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. That was the patient and the family were of equal importance.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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And in 2003, I formed Pallium India with several colleagues with the national agenda, because still then the growth was mostly conveyed to Kerala and a couple of metropolitan cities. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. But remember that here we were focused on needs.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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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

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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. Controversies Concerning Vitamin K and the Newborn. Ross, JA, Davies SM. Vitamin K prophylaxis and childhood cancer. Med Pediatr Oncol. 2000 Jun;34(6):434-7. Cornelissen, M.,