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Prescription for Health

Missing Medication Can Cause Problems According to the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, almost 9 million people in D.C., Maryland and Virginia live with at least one chronic health condition, such as diabetes, asthma, heart failure, hypertension or high cholesterol. Yet an
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Growing Up

Do You Embrace or Fear Next Steps? We often get comfortable in our relationships. A little too comfortable. It is not a bad thing, but it could lead to complications or speed bumps of sorts.   When we are comfortable in a relationship, change is not only unwelcome, but it is
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Hypertension

Avoid Problems from High Blood Pressure A third of adults ages 40 to 59 have high blood pressure, or hypertension. So do nearly two-thirds of the population age 60 and older. That makes high blood pressure among the most common medical conditions in the United States.   It
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