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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By David Tuller / The Bulletin
November 20, 2008
In February 2005, Rita Miller, a party organizer in Chesapeake, Va., felt exhausted from what she thought was the flu. She was stunned to learn that persistent high blood pressure had caused such severe kidney damage that her body could no longer filter waste products from her....