"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
New federal guidelines recommend checking children for possible heart and blood vessel damage if they have high blood pressure -- a hazard increasing among the very young as Americans put on more and more weight.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I always understood that you were supposed to check for such damage periodically in people with high blood pressure - regardless of their age. Is this really new? posted by Sydney on
5/20/2004 09:28:00 AM
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