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When Good Doctors Give Bad Advice: How to Trust but Verify
Good doctors can make mistakes. Learn how to trust but verify medical advice, drug risks, interactions and side effects.
Can You Save Your Sight With AREDS Vitamins?
Taking AREDS2 vitamins and eating foods full of antioxidants, vitamins and minerals can help keep macular degeneration from progressing.
When Topical Pain Relief Gets Under Your Skin: The Risks of Voltaren Gel
Topical pain medicine seems much safer than pills, but the risks of Voltaren Gel can include stomach upset and elevated blood pressure.
Beware of Serotonin Syndrome from Cough Remedy Interaction
Have you ever swallowed cough medicine? A surprising number of drugs can lead to a cough remedy interaction. Serotonin Syndrome can be awful!
How Can You Make Your Own Rosemary Water?
If you want to keep your brain healthy over the years, don't smoke, do exercise, get enough sleep and sip rosemary water. You can make it yourself.
Angular Cheilitis (Perleche) Home Remedies
Cracks at the corner of the mouth (angular cheilitis) are painful. Could nutritional deficiencies be the culprit?
Show 1492: What Really Works Against Winter Infections
If you start coughing, sneezing and feeling dreadful, what should you do? We discuss preventing and treating winter infections.
Women Have New Options to Treat Symptoms of Menopause
Gynecologists are embracing hormone therapies to treat symptoms of menopause. They also have nonhormonal options for women who prefer those.
Sneezing Season Surprise: Rethinking Heart Disease and Dementia
Flu, shingles and other infections may threaten more than your lungs and skin. New research is rethinking heart disease and vaccination.
What Do You Eat to Reduce Your Risk for Diabetes?
A long-term study of health professionals suggests that eating fewer processed foods and more whole grains and vegetables can lower the risk for diabetes.
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