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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 Read More

Discuss Family Health History with Children Parents spend hours planning to talk with their children about the “birds and bees.” But moms and dads often ignore an equally important conversation — discussing their family’s overall health history.   That is why, in 2004, Read More

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 Read More