Heart disease can come with age despite a heart-healthy youth. Statin drugs are the most effective and most prescribed drugs for high cholesterol and for...
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Sniffling, Sneezing, Itching Eyes: The ABCs to Get Through Allergy Season
If it seems like allergy season runs from one season right into the next, it’s not your imagination. Bottom Line Personal asked Jo S. Reed,...
Prevent These Common Age-Related Eye Diseases
Many age-related eye diseases that cause vision loss in adults 60 and older have no early symptoms. Here’s how to reduce your risk… Glaucoma typically...
Are PPIs Really Safe for Acid Reflux?
Have you stopped taking Prevacid, Prilosec, Nexium and other proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) for your acid reflux because they have been linked to dementia, kidney...
Sinusitis
Spring with its rainy days, flowers blooming, pollen blowing, and gardeners everywhere tilling up decayed and rotting plant material creates the perfect setting for respiratory...
Is Your Medicine in Short Supply?
If you’ve been turned away from the pharmacy because the medication you need is out of stock, you’re not alone. Medication shortages are a growing...
“Unnecessary” Heart Stents May Have Benefits
Once every seven minutes, a Medicare patient gets a cardiac stent they don’t need.” “Coronary stent overuse is running rampant.” Those were headlines you may...
Natural Ways to Quit Smoking
Natural ways to quit smoking provide relief for the cravings and can aid your path to quitting.
Stem Cell Clinics: Hope or Hype?
Close to 3,000 stem-cell therapy clinics across the United States charge from $1,500 to $28,000 for “miracle cures” for everything from Alzheimer’s disease to chronic...
Natural Remedies for Allergies and Hay Fever
Natural remedies for allergies can help with the scratchy eyes, congestion, and misery of allergies without the drowsiness of allergy medications.
Natural Remedies for Urinary Tract Health
Good urinary tract health can help prevent problems like kidney stones, or infections and natural remedies like diet can be a part of maintaining this…
Bet You Know Someone Who Still Smokes
Good news! Cigarette smoking among US adults has dropped steadily over the last 50 years. And yet—you are likely to know someone who still smokes....
