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Law students vote today on whether to leave GPSA by Andrew Beale Daily Lobo
The Graduate and Professional Student Association may lose about 345 members depending on the results of a vote today. The Student Bar Association, which represents UNM’s School of Law, called a vote to determine whether the law school students will
secede from GPSA to form their own organization. Law student Genevieve Graham, who helped with the planning stages for the vote, said some law students want to secede from GPSA to have more control over student government. “For quite some time now, GPSA’s interests have not been aligned with law school interests,” she said. “The law school students are capable of
governing themselves.” GPSA President Lissa Knudsen said if the law school secedes, GPSA will lose funding from the student fees brought in by the school, estimated at more than $8,500. “We would lose about 345 people at $25 a head,” she said. “We would also miss their expertise.” Knudsen said law school students make about double that money back in a typical year through GPSA
programs such as tuition assistance and specialized travel grants. “If they were to secede, it would probably benefit the other departments, because I think the law school people take the most money from us. But we would still miss them,” she said. “It’s important to keep all the campuses together.” Knudsen said the law school students would lose these benefits from GPSA if they seceded and GPSA won’t
be hurt by the $8,500 lost. “I hope they understand what we won’t be doing for them anymore,” she said. The election will be held by electronic vote, and the results will be binding, Graham said. She said that after the election, the proposed new organization will have to be approved by the Board of Regents.
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Flooding, maintenance close UNM’s three pools
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Summer is right around the corner, but students won’t be using UNM pools any time soon. The Olympic pool, Johnson pool and the therapy pool are all closed due to maintenance issues. A pipe in the Olympic pool’s maintenance room burst, flooding the room with water after a planned power outage March 14, said Robert Notary, Physical Plant Department associate director. This is the second time the Olympic pool has been closed since March 2009. The pool was closed during winter break for tile repairs. “The flooding didn’t cause any damages, but we’re still left with all this piping that needs to be replaced,” he said. Notary said Physical Plant Department representatives were at the building when the power was shut off and stopped the flooding immediately. A steam leak heated a length of pipe holding still water, Notary said. The water became so hot that the plastic pipe warped and caused the end of the pipe to explode. He said UNM is not responsible for the flooding, but it has not yet been determined who will eventually pay the estimated $20,000 bill. “Shutting off the electricity didn’t cause it, but it made the problem evident,” Notary said. “The root cause was the steam valve.” UNM chose K.L. House Construction Co. to complete the remodel last year, and Notary said the company’s work should still be under warrantee. President of K.L. House, Michael Brogdon said who pays the bill depends on who caused the damage. He said there is a possibility that UNM
caused the flood by shutting off the pool’s power. “If the University did something wrong, they’ll have to pay for it,” he said. Brogdon said there are others who may be responsible as well, including plumbers, subcontractors and engineers. “We’ve tried to simulate the outage on this valve several times, and we can’t get it to malfunction in the mode that we thought it did,” he said. “We’re still trying to figure out what happened.” James Todd, associate director of Recreational Services, said the Olympic pool may reopen on April 10, but the date is still tentative. He said that after all repairs are made, the pool must be turned back on. At that point, he said, there may still be other parts that were affected by the explosion and need to be replaced. “After we do that we’ll determine if there are any other things that need to be repaired,” he said. “We’re hoping there’s not.” Todd said many people have questioned why the pool is closed again. “People are concerned,” he said. “They’re concerned that the pool isn’t open and wanting to know why.” According to an e-mailed statement from Todd, more than 20 feet of piping needs to be replaced, as well as other mechanical equipment. Brogdon said one part must be reordered from Canada. The therapy pool was automatically shut down because it’s in the same building as the Olympic pool. Johnson pool has been closed since June of last year because its drains are no longer up to federal and state codes, Todd said. He said a reopening date for that pool hasn’t been set yet.
State’s slow adoption of medicinal marijuana draws criticism by Hunter Riley Daily Lobo
New Mexico’s medical marijuana program is gaining momentum, but some activists say it isn’t progressing fast enough to meet the needs of its patients. In December, the Medical Marijuana Advisory Board held a public hearing in Santa Fe to allow people to petition for more health conditions to be treated by the drug. Of the five health conditions on the
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meeting’s agenda — including obsessivecompulsive disorder and hepatitis C — only one was approved by Secretary of Health Alfredo Vigil. The condition added to the list that allows people to apply for a medical cannabis card was inflammatory autoimmune-mediated arthritis. “With the other conditions, the research was very sketchy,” Vigil said. “And by that I mean I only use sources of information that I know to be reliable and scientific. I‘m a boardcertified physician, and I’ve been on the
clinical faculty of the medical school for many years. That’s the world I live in; that’s the way I approach things.” Linda Gordos, a doctor on the advisory board, said there aren’t enough reliable studies to reference, because the substance has been heavily regulated. “It is challenging for cannabis because it has been restricted, and essentially it has been restricted from being used in a lot of medical research,” Gordos said. “Some of what we deal with in the medical literature is testing that is
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Graham said she thinks the law students are generally in favor of seceding from GPSA. “As we put some more opinions out there and had forums and sent e-mails, we were sort of pleased to find most students were in support of this,” she said. Knudsen said there is a core group of law school students involved in the secession process, but most law students don’t have a strong opinion on the issue. “I think there’s a group that are pro-secession, maybe a couple
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dozen of them,” she said. “And then I think there’s a large amount that don’t know very much about it and don’t care.” The law school students have not designed a framework of what their new governmental body would look like, Graham said. “We put in place an advocacy position, someone that would advocate in Santa Fe, but we haven’t done more than that because we want to see what happens in the vote tomorrow,” she said. Knudsen said she’s not sure how
GPSA will reorganize itself if the law school secedes. “I think I’d like to see how the vote turns out first, but I think I will be working pretty closely with the new president, if they do secede,” she said. Graham also doesn’t know what the Student Bar Association will do if the vote is not in favor of seceding from GPSA. “I don’t see that scenario happening,” she said. “Either way, we would still be in support of GPSA and ASUNM.”
attended any hearings and can’t see how medical cannabis improves the life quality for hundreds of patients. “I was at the last meeting, and there was a board of doctors up there that listened to the testimony of patients about how medical marijuana helps their conditions,” Love said. “If (Vigil) was down there, then he could see the testimony in front of him. There’s the evidence. I’ve been told by his office that he won’t attend this meeting either.” Love said he started a campaign to get people to call into Vigil’s office and ask that he attend the March 30 meeting. “It’s pretty common that the kinds of people that are going to get the advice aren’t sitting there throughout the entire thing,” Vigil said. Love said the biggest problem facing the program right now is the lack of distributors. “The (Department of Health) has set the criteria that each approved producer can handle 100 patients with the 95 plants, which is the maximum they are allowed to grow,” Love said. “So, at this point, with over 1,500 patients approved, there are only five producers, which means they are 10
producers behind approving them in order to add enough medicine for the patients.” Love said the Department of Health is not approving producers fast enough for the number of patients they accept each month. Love said there are about 200 cards issued each month. “I understand there are over 35 applicants that want to grow medical marijuana,” he said. “Dr. Vigil has stated in the past that he is going slowly because he does not want there to be an excess of medicine around that might hit the streets, so he’s purposefully moving slow. But he’s moving too slowly to the detriment of the patients.” Vigil said the program avoided many problems that other states have encountered. “I think we have been fairly quick in putting something together of this complexity with all those components,” Vigil said. “Our reputation around the country is one of having one of the most solid and sustainable programs that has been developed yet. And we get contacted constantly by both advocates as well as state governments that say they want to go down the same road and they want to know how we did it.”
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maybe done on animals, and looking at where cannabis reacts and what it does to cells. We just don’t have enough clinical data to back up the human condition trial data.” Gordos said newer studies gathered information on cannabis that was previously unknown. She said the human body naturally produces a substance that cannabinoids mimic. “There are different types of cannabinoid receptors in the body; they’re located all through the body,” she said. “There were originally two receptors that were identified as cannabinoids. Now there is newer data out suggesting that cannabinoids may react with other receptors in the body.” Gordos said the advisory board and the secretary of health need clinical data to back up patient testimony. The purpose of the advisory board is to listen to the concerns of potential patients and make recommendations to the secretary, Vigil said. ”(Advisory groups) provide a specific perspective, and that’s critical,” Vigil said. Medical marijuana activist Larry Love started a radio blog about the progress of the program in New Mexico. Love said Vigil hasn’t
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Letter US will eventually have to move toward single-payer system Editor, As much as my colleagues and I would like to join the celebration of the House’s passage of the health bill over the weekend, there is cause for serious reservation about the current course of health care reform. Instead of eliminating the root of the problem — the profit-driven, private health insurance industry — this costly new legislation will enrich and further entrench these firms. The bill would require millions of Americans to buy private insurers; defective products, and turn over to them vast amounts of public money. The hype surrounding the new health bill is belied by the facts: About 23 million people will remain uninsured nine years out. That figure translates into an estimated 23,000 unnecessary deaths annually and an incalculable toll of suffering. Millions of middle-income people will be pressured to buy commercial health insurance policies costing up to 9.5 percent of their income but covering an average of only 70 percent of their medical expenses, potentially leaving them vulnerable to financial ruin if they become seriously ill. Many will find such policies too expensive to afford or, if they do buy them, too expensive to use because of the high co-pays and deductibles. Insurance firms will be handed at least $447 billion in taxpayer money to subsidize the purchase of their shoddy products. This money will enhance their financial and political power, and with it their ability to block future reform. Health care costs will continue to skyrocket, as the experience with the Massachusetts plan (after which this bill is patterned) amply demonstrates. This bill’s passage reflects political considerations, not sound health policy. A genuine remedy is in plain sight. Sooner rather than later, our nation will have to adopt a singlepayer national health insurance program, an improved Medicare for all. Only a single-payer plan can assure truly universal, comprehensive and affordable care to all. By replacing the private insurers with a streamlined system of public financing, our nation could save $400 billion annually in unnecessary, wasteful administrative costs. That’s enough to cover all the uninsured and to upgrade everyone else’s coverage without having to increase overall U.S. health spending by one penny. Moreover, only a single-payer system offers effective tools for cost control like bulk purchasing, negotiated fees, global hospital budgeting and capital planning. Polls show nearly 2/3 of the public supports such an approach, and a recent survey shows 59 percent of U.S. physicians support government action to establish national health insurance. All that is required to achieve it is the political will. The major provisions of the present bill do not go into effect until 2014. Although we will be counseled to “wait and see” how this reform plays out, we cannot wait, nor can our patients. The stakes are too high. Work for the only equitable, financially responsible and humane remedy for our health care mess: single-payer national health insurance, an expanded and improved Medicare for all. Dr. Oliver Fein President of Physicians for a National Health Program
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National health care reform’s effects on NM Editor, For the first time in 75 years, the citizens of the United States and New Mexico are guaranteed security and stability in health care coverage. A solid foundation has been laid on which we can carefully build a health care system that uses competition to control costs and that will work for our families and our children’s families. Insurance companies will no longer be able to undermine health coverage. This is the end of the worst practices of the insurance industry — no more denials due to pre-existing conditions or dropping coverage for people who get sick. No longer will people go bankrupt because of illness or hidden ceilings on coverage. Members of Congress will be required to be in the same plans as millions of Americans and small businesses. The good parts of our health care system have been kept, and oversight of insurance has been introduced for companies and their practices, controlling insurance rate increases, ensuring choice of plan and doctor, increasing competition in the health marketplace and expanding prevention and wellness programs. Medicare will be strengthened — reform will cut waste and fraud in Medicare, add almost a decade of solvency and close the gap in
prescription drug coverage lowering costs for seniors. Small businesses will be able to hire employees aided by tax credits that make health insurance more affordable and will allow these small businesses to band together and get better prices. There will be access to affordable health care for individuals and small businesses that cannot afford insurance. About 3.5 million small businesses and 31 million Americans will now be able to buy affordable insurance. According to the U.S. House Committee on Commerce and Energy, in New Mexico, the health care reform bill will: Improve coverage for 987,000 New Mexicans who have health insurance. Give tax credits and other assistance to 520,000 families and 40,400 small businesses to help them afford coverage. Improve Medicare for 296,000 older adults including closing the donut hole. Extend coverage to 273,000 uninsured New Mexicans. Guarantee coverage to 511,700 residents with pre-existing conditions. Allow 165,000 young adults in New Mexico health coverage. Protect 2,200 New Mexican families from
bankruptcy due to health expenses. Provide millions of dollars in new funding to 129 community health centers in New Mexico. New Mexico legislators in the 2010 regular session passed Senate Joint Memorial 1 which sets up a governmental and quasi-governmental working group under the convening of the superintendent of insurance to begin meeting this month to make recommendations to the governor and legislature on the best ways for New Mexico to implement federal reform at the state level. We are a better America and a better New Mexico today. Health Action New Mexico salutes Rep. Martin Heinrich and Ben Lujan for their vote on this historic legislation. Health Action New Mexico is a nonprofit health consumer advocacy organization that has been working for affordable, accountable health care for all New Mexicans for 15 years. In 2009, the board of HANM committed the agency to work on educating the public about federal health reform. Beginning in May, 2010, HANM will hold community forums around the state to inform people about the changes they can anticipate under the new legislation. Barbara K. Webber Health Action New Mexico Board
Bill could make US unrecognizable socialists Editor, This morning I watched President Obama’s speech about the new health care bill on TV with much skepticism. Even though he said that the government will give millions of small business owners tax credits to help them waive the costs of this new policy, there are several aspects about this bill that he did not mention. Under this new policy, most Americans will be required to carry health insurance, otherwise they will have to pay penalties to the IRS. I feel that this is anti-Constitutional, because it’s
contrary to the tenets of capitalism upon which our beautiful country was founded. Everyone should have the freedom to choose whether or not they will purchase health insurance, not have the government make that decision for them. He also forgot to mention that this health care policy will cost Americans $938 billion over the next decade. The purpose of this money is to extend medical insurance to 32 million uninsured Americans. But can we really afford these additional expenses,
especially one year after the economic-stimulus package was passed? Increased federal spending and government control; this is what the Obama administration is all about, folks. My greatest fear is that America will become a socialist country beyond recognition within the next decade, unless my fellow Americans have other plans. Andres Saenz UNM alumnus
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The more Steve Alford talked, the more apparent it was how inane the sensational speculation is about his possible departure to fill a coaching vacancy elsewhere. “I couldn’t imagine passing the new Pit off to someone else,” Alford said. “This time of year, with coaches, it’s crazy. You’re either talked about or not talked about. When you get talked about that means you’re probably doing a pretty good job. But I’ve said all along I’m a Lobo. I love it here.” Of course, that could change. But, if you take Alford at his word — and there’s no reason not to — he’s locked here for the long haul. “One of the things I’ve learned is you have to have the support of your administration,” Alford said. He learned it the hard way. Just look to the not-so-distant past, when Alford was coaching at Iowa, a university intent on competing with the glory hounds in the Big Ten yet on a parsimonious budget, something Alford, to this day, hints at if you’re astute enough to pick up on it. “Here at UNM, I have the support of my administration, and they know what they’re doing,” Alford said. The undertone, of course, being the Iowa brass did not. It didn’t help that Alford was entangled in a sordid affair involving one of his players, Pierre Pierce, who was accused of sexual assault. Throughout the ordeal, Alford resolutely backed Pierce, a decision
which was harshly criticized and didn’t bode well with the people in Iowa. Eventually, Pierce was booted off the team in 2005. As Alford attested to at Tuesday’s post-season, wrap-up news conference, he’s learned from his past situations, referring to himself as a “vet” when it comes to the business behind college basketball. And at UNM, suffice it to say Alford is in the black. His three-season total of 76 wins is the second-best, three-year total in school history, trumped only by UNM’s 77-21 start from 1996-98. Even better, the big-enough-yetnot-too-small Albuquerque market is suitable for Alford. He enjoys the quality of life here. “If it was just money, I’d be actively pursuing everything,” Alford said. And, as can’t be overstated, Albuquerque basketball-crazed fans are more easily satisfied than their Big Ten counterparts. Hard to imagine, but, yes, throw in the avant-garde thinking of Athletics Director Paul Krebs and University President David Schmidly, investing in a $60 million reconstructive surgery for The Pit, adding to the grandeur of one of the nation’s turn-key college arenas. Don’t be fooled for a second. Let’s not pretend that the University is invested only in hosting first-and-second round games in the men’s NCAA Tournament. The cosmetic construction is as much about keeping Alford tethered to the flagship University’s flagpole as it is
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If giving speeches and making plans won football games, Mike Locksley would be undefeated as a head coach. The man who calls himself “Coach Locks” moved forward to Phase II of his proclaimed “renovation project.” But everyone knows how Phase I went. In 2009, Locksley encountered several off-the-field distractions, hampering the results of a year that included a 1-11 season. Many of those were blow-out losses. Quickly, the football team was overshadowed by the men’s basketball team’s hot start across University Boulevard in November. But in 2010 for Locksley, Phase II is a new year, which gives the second-year head man a clean slate and an opportunity to revive a program that saw some of its darkest days in almost 20 years. UNM spring practices began on Tuesday at the UNM practice field. And Locksley began on the path toward redemption, on a journey to accomplish what he set out to do some 16 months ago, when he replaced former head coach Rocky Long as the face of UNM football. “I have seen great determination and drive by our team,” Locksley said. “One of the things we did, after we came back from Christmas
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break as a staff and as a team, is we got together, and we challenged each other to make a full commitment to this program.” From now until April 17, when the annual Cherry-Silver game will be played at University Stadium, Locksley and his coaching staff will break down all positions and see which players appear to be leading candidates as starters for fall camp later in the year. Linebacker Carmen Messina, who led the team in tackles and led the nation in tackles per game during his sophomore year, will be one of the team leaders, not only on the defensive side of the ball, but for the whole team. Messina said he and the team are more comfortable in year two under Locks. “The coaches came and said how they wanted things to flow,” he said. “They set the way they want things to be and everyone has bought in, because Lobo football is so important to us and we really want to strive to become a better team.” If UNM wants to improve on the field, they will have to earn it on the practice fields, Locksley said. Much like last year, the Lobos head coach announced that all starting positions are open for 2010 and the competition begins in spring practice. So not even UNM’s 41 returning lettermen, some who had starting spots during the 2009 season,
are safe. “The purpose of spring ball is to try and identify those playmakers,” Locksley said. “I think we have the nucleus of some pretty good football players to help us take that next step as a team. Everybody’s competing for a starting position and that’s just not coach-speak. We’re going to rotate guys in and out of there.” And perhaps tailor the offensive philosophy a bit. After Locksley said in jest that University Stadium would need a third digit on the scoreboard to accommodate the high-scoring offense he envisioned, UNM’s head coach wants the Lobos to become a more physical, brute force to win games. The Lobos failed to score an offensive touchdown in the first 15 quarters of the 2009 season Still, one of the building blocks Locksley wants to work on during the spring practices is running the ball and stopping the run. “For us to take the next step in our program, we’ve got to improve and the first thing we got to do, it starts with the running game,” Locksley said. “I think our running back position is one of the strengths of our team, and I think familiarity in our system will allow us to take that step. We really feel as a staff and as a team, we’ve got to be able to run the ball to stop the run.”
administration standpoint, it’d be a lot more enticing to look.” And listen to offers pour in is what Alford graciously will do, though he hedges that statement by distinguishing between taking note of something and actually paying attention to
its veracity. “You always listen,” he said. “You listen to everything. But I’m listening to my heart and to my stomach more than anything else. That is, ‘I’m a Lobo.’ Listening and actually hearing things are a little bit different.”
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about generating revenue by attracting large, prominent events. “When I was hired, there was no talk of Pit expansion and Pit renovations. This has all just come about,” Alford said. Sure it has. Just like the speculation about whether Alford will dart to another school. Oregon was brought up. As he has done in the past, Alford rebuked the notion that he will leave Loboland. “As long as I know that Dr. Schmidly and Paul Krebs are locked in here,” Alford said, “that’s the most important thing to me. If I didn’t have the right pieces put together from an
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UNM NORTH CAMPUS- 1 and 2BDRMS $490-$650/mo +utilities. Clean, quiet, remodeled. Move in special! 573-7839.
ROOMS FOR RENT- Dorm-style living. Starting at $250/mo. Guys and girls rooms available. Troy 315-3118.
STUDIO- FIRST MONTH FREE w/extended lease, 1 block UNM, Free utilities, $435-$455/mo. 246-2038. www.kachina-properties.com
ROOMS FOR RENT! Telos Christian Campus House. Dorm-style living on campus. Call Troy for details 505-3153118.
NEAR UNM/ NOB Hill. 2BDRM 1BA like new. Quiet area, on-site manager, storage, laundry, parking. Pets ok, no dogs. 141 Manzano St NE, $585/mo. 6102050.
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NOB HILL/ UNM small 1BDRM. Quiet professional wanted. $550/mo includes utilities. No pets/ no smoking. 255-7874.
ELECTRONIC/ COMPUTER REPAIR affordable. 991-3494.
UNM/ NOB HILL. 3BDRM 2BA, Office. Total remodel. Perfect UNM staff or 2 or 3 Professional students. Furnished or Unfurnished.References &Credit Check required. Pets on approval w/deposit. $2600/mo +deposit. 255-3855, 228-8115.
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Child Care CLASSROOM ASSISTANT NEEDED: For part time Monday-Friday (12PM – 6PM). Montessori experience helpful but will train. Prefer Education Majors Send info to: admin@acdemymontessorischool.org or call 299-3200. FIVE STAR, NATIONALLY Accredited child care program looking for staff members to work afternoons with school aged children. Please call 505304-6493. PT/FT OPENING - Childrens Learning Center Email resume to dx6572@g mail.com
Jobs Off Campus !!!BARTENDING!!!: UP TO $300/day. No experience necessary, training provided. 1-800-965-6520ext.100. COSMETIC MAKEUP SALES Cottonwood/ Coronado Malls. Neat in appearance, non-smoker, reliable transportation, full/ part-time, references checked, 507-1064.
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TALIN MARKET IS looking for an office assistant. Must be organized, able to type at least 50 words per minute, and proficient with ten key. Please pick up an application at 88 Louisiana SE (corner of Central & Louisiana).
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Would you be interested in giving the “Gift of Life” to an infertile couple? A loving couple is seeking healthy AfricanAmerican or African-American/Bi-Racial women between the ages of 21-28, who are non-smoking, have a normal (BMI), and are interested in anonymous egg donation. The experience of helping to provide the precious gift of a child for an infertile couple is emotionally rewarding and you will be generously financially compensated for your time. All donations are strictly confidential. If you are interested, please contact Myra at The Center for Reproductive Medicine of New Mexico at 505-224-7429. TEACH ENGLISH IN Korea!
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Volunteers HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS AND subjects with and without asthma are needed for a research study looking at the effects of fat and physical activity on the breathing tubes. If you qualify, compensation will be provided for your time and inconvenience upon study completion. If you are healthy or have asthma, over the age of 18, and are interested in finding out more about this study, please contact or leave a message for Teresa at (505)269-1074 or e-mail tarchibeque@salud.unm.edu DO YOU HAVE hypertension and high cholesterol? We are conducting an 8 week research study for patients with hypertension and high cholesterol, without diabetes. If you qualify, all research care including physician assessments, study medications, lab tests, and nutrition assessments will be provided. If the entire study is completed, qualified participants will receive up to $475 in compensation.
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