What are the best ways to exercise and improve your bone health when you have osteoporosis? Try weight-bearing workouts to build stronger bones. Talk to your doctor and make sure the workout you choose is safe for you. Then give these latest trends a try! 1. Tai Chi Tai chi — a form of slow, …
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What You Need to Know
Have you felt exhausted lately? Can you barely make it up the stairs without getting winded even though you’re physically fit? If so, you might be lacking in iron — especially if you’re a woman. Although many people don’t think of iron as being a nutrient, you might be surprised to learn that low iron …
High Blood Pressure & Pain Relievers
When you have high blood pressure, you need to be very careful with over-the-counter pain medicines. Remember: No drug is risk-free. Here are some tips from the experts about using these medicines. Take the safest medicine. Unless your doctor has told you it’s OK, do not use over-the-counter ibuprofen, naproxen sodium, or ketoprofen for pain …
Are You Overusing Nasal Spray?
Yes. Just ask Marianne McCall. A few allergy seasons back, she thought her seasonal congestion might never end. In April, she’d begun to use a topical nasal-spray decongestant. The over-the-counter (OTC) drug worked like a charm. By summer, she was still using the spray daily. Yet it was helping for shorter and shorter periods. Between …
You Are Your Own Best Advocate
With type 2 diabetes, it’s vital to know the facts and communicate with your care team, especially when you face care disparities. Source: https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/features/type-2-advocate-for-yourself?src=RSS_PUBLIC
Study Confirms Memory, Concentration Issues After Lyme Disease
Nov. 15, 2022 – People who have been treated for Lyme disease, but continue to have symptoms, have changes in their brains that confirm the memory and concentration problems many of them have reported, a new study has found. Many people with what’s known as post-treatment Lyme disease – or PTLD – complain about problems …
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More U.S. Kids Are Heading to ERs After Drinking Cough Suppressant
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Nov. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Increasing numbers of young children are showing up in emergency rooms after accidentally ingesting the cough suppressant benzonatate, U.S. health officials reported Tuesday. Benzonatate is a non-narcotic cough suppressant first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1958 for children ages …
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Roberta Flack Has ALS, Can No Longer Sing
By Robin Foster and Cara Murez HealthDay Reporters TUESDAY, Nov. 15, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Singer Roberta Flack has the incurable disease ALS and can’t sing, but she plans to stay active on other projects, her manager said Monday. Flack, 85, is a Grammy winner best known for hits that include “Killing Me Softly With …
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Advice That Helps, Advice That Hurts
By Diane Miller, as told to Stephanie Watson Until Jan. 14, 2021, if you’d asked me to describe myself, I would have said, “I’m a wife and mother.” After that day, I added “cancer survivor” to my title. At first, I attributed the back and foot pain I was having in late 2020 to …
How My Health Care Team Helped Me
By Lavern McDonald, as told to Hallie Levine I was diagnosed with stage IV inoperable lung cancer in 2018. It has been a long, hard journey. But thanks to my care team and innovative treatments, I have been able to turn this deadly condition into a chronic disease. Here’s what I want others to know. …
Optimizing Treatment for Inoperable Lung Cancer
By Carl Gay, MD, PhD, as told to Hallie Levine When patients hear the term “inoperable lung cancer,” they often think that that means their cancer is incurable. But thanks to advances in treatment over the last several years, this diagnosis doesn’t mean a death sentence. There are many treatments available to slow its spread, …
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Elementary School Kids Offer Encouraging Words — and a Pep Talk
Nov. 14, 2022 — When two art teachers in Healdsburg, CA, set out to create a hotline for anyone in their small wine country town in need of a mental health lift this past March, they had no idea that their phone line, which features the voices of some of the kids in their elementary …
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