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There’s no shortage of creepy, Orwellian stuff happening these days. Last week, for instance, we heard how high-tech automobiles are increasingly capable of sending out personal data tailor-made for targeted marketing.

Dear Dr. Roach: Please discuss low sodium. My last blood sodium shows 129 on a scale of 136 to 146. I have been on a 50-milligram hydrochlorothiazide water tab once a day for 15 years, along with two benazepril 40-mg tabs each day.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a male, 84 years old and in pretty good health. The only problems I have are high blood pressure and cholesterol, which are under control.

For serious runner Stephen Curran, a half-marathon is almost a treat, an event requiring training, but without the physiological commitment of a full marathon. “The full marathon can just seem so daunting,” said Curran.

Lawyers and happiness-an unlikely pairing? Not in Bhutan. In February, the king of Bhutan signed the royal charter for a school of law, the very first in this tiny Asian country. This law school will be unique.

Although the term “helicopter parents” has recently taken hold in our language, nearly every parent is overprotective at times.

A family member or friend is drawing up a living will and asks you to be their substitute decision-maker.

MISSISSAUGA, Ont.

NEW YORK — Clothing trends for fall 2015 weren’t the only thing that had style enthusiasts buzzing around the tents at New York Fashion Week this season.

Dear Dr. Roach: A while back, I read in your column that if a person with dementia is taken off statins, the effects of dementia could be reversed.