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Millions of people take omega-3 fatty acids to prevent illness and maintain good health. The manufacturers of these health supplements also encourage these products for diabetic patients to help ...

Omega-3 Fatty Acids of Little Help In Type 2 Diabetes

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Millions of people suffer from depression. For most people, a variety of antidepressants are prescribed which need to be taken for life. Even though drugs may be effective, they also cause ...

Exercise May Not Ease Depression After All

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One of the most common health supplements used by consumers is calcium. In the past 30 years, calcium has achieved fame as a supplement to strengthen the bones and prevent fractures. A lot of ...

Taking Calcium Supplements May Increase Heart Attack Risk

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Schizophrenia is a relatively common disorder. A significant number of patients with schizophrenia have auditory verbal hallucinations that are often refractory or resistant to medications. ...

Direct Brain Stimulation for Schizophrenia

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One of the most expensive heart medications that is frequently used to thin blood after a heart attack or following insertion of a stent finally lost its patent. Generic Plavix (clopidogrel) ...

Generic Plavix

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So far, the cause of colon cancer remains a mystery. Colon cancer usually presents after the fifth decade of life and often presents with vague symptoms. In many cases by the time diagnosis ...

Beta Blockers Do Not Lower Risk of Colon Cancer

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Chantix is a prescription medication to help people discontinue smoking. The drug has been around for several years and has been reported to reduce cravings and decrease the pleasure derived from ...

Chantix Does Not Increase Risk for Heart Attacks

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Thousands of patients who develop heart failure are routinely treated with the blood thinner, warfarin. This drug, while effective, also needs to be monitored and has a tendency to cause ...

Warfarin Vs. Aspirin for Heart Failure

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Millions of people grind their teeth and most have no idea they have this habit. Most people find out that they grind teeth from their partner or the dentist. Teeth grinding is not ...

Botox for Teeth Grinding

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Millions of Americans take statins to lower their blood cholesterol. The most common statins used in the United States include Lipitor, Crestor, Zocor and Pravachol. One of the warnings given ...

Statins and Muscle Injury

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Lunch time boob job jabs have become the latest fad in Europe. Some cosmetic and plastic surgeons offer this lunch time service for women who want a quick fix for their breasts. Essentially the ...

Be Careful About the Lunch Time 'Boob Jab' Procedure

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One of the drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes is metformin. Metformin has been around for almost 50 years. In the last two decades a lot of data has been published about metformin and its ...

Metformin and the Risk of Heart Disease

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Depression affects millions of people, and the disorder can be a lifelong condition. It is estimated that as many as 1 in 10 people may develop depression at some point in their lives. There ...

Walking Can Help Relieve Symptoms of Depression

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Millions of people suffer from osteoarthritis. For most of these individuals, the only treatment is consuming pain pills since there is no cure for the disorder. Besides changes in lifestyle ...

Statins Can Prevent Progression of Osteoarthritis

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One of the most deadly cancers in females is ovarian cancer. The cause of ovarian cancer is a mystery and there is no effective screening test. The majority of women present late. By the time ...

Ovarian Cancer is More Likely to Occur in Tall Women

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Almost everyone wants to look youthful and attractive. The world of skin care has thousands of products on the market, but the majority do not work and even those that do only have a transient ...

Looking Young the Natural Way

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Many people would like to lose weight but there are not many effective prescription weight loss pills. Those that are available also have serious side effects. Surgery for weight loss is expensive ...

Weight Loss Supplements Do Not Work

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Depression affects millions of people. While there are several drugs to treat this chronic disorder, many patients complain of undesirable side effects. Moreover, the benefits of antidepressant ...

Non-Drug Treatment for Depression, Transcranial Stimulation

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Almost every month there is a new report indicating that drinking coffee is not good for health. Almost every type of possible health complication has been attributed to drinking this ...

Is Coffee Consumption Bad?

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First it was apples, then it was dark chocolate followed by red wine, now researchers say that an orange a day will keep a stroke away. This latest study by Aedin Cassidy and colleagues from ...

An Orange a Day Keeps a Stroke Away

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It is well-known that people who experience a heart attack often develop left-sided chest pain. This pain is often associated with nausea, difficulty breathing and excess sweating. Now a study ...

Symptoms of Heart Attack in Women Differ from Men

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Sinus infections are not pleasant. They often present with a runny nose, cough, pain around the face, fever and generalized fatigue. While some individuals may never develop a sinus infection, ...

Antibiotics Don't Help Most Sinus Infections

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There is no doubt that Botox is useful for treatment of wrinkles. However, since its introduction two decades ago, physicians have been finding new disorders that can be treated with Botox. In ...

Evidence for Botox to treat Migraines is Questionable

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Many American consumers have been upset in the last decade that the FDA has continually banned or prevented the release of newer weight loss drugs in the United States. However, after reading the ...

Scandal Involving the Weight Loss Drug, Benfluorex

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The proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have been around for more than two decades. The drugs are very effective for the treatment of peptic ulcer disease, GERD and gastritis. Millions of people ...

Hip Fracture Risk is High with Proton Pump Inhibitors

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Divorce is common in our society. Most people who divorce say they are glad to get out of an unhappy or abusive marriage. However, for some newly-divorced middle-aged women, more problems lay ...

Divorced Middle-Aged Women at Risk for Contracting STDs

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It is a fact that that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are more common in the younger population. Most middle-aged and elderly people never concern themselves about these unpleasant ...

Elderly Women at Risk for STDs

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For people who have type 2 diabetes, there is some good news. The U.S. FDA has just approved the drug Bydureon for the control of blood sugar. Bydureon can only be administered by injection ...

FDA Approves Bydureon for Type 2 Diabetes: New is Not Always Better

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Even though most people do not admit to it, there is a tendency by many individuals to fudge their height and weight when asked in application forms and surveys. Whenever questionnaires are filled ...

Fudging Height and Weight

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The postulated medical benefits of vitamin D continue unabated. Every week, there is a new study which shows that vitamin D can cure an illness. For some time researchers have been postulating ...

Shamir Benji commented on Shamir Benji's post Vitamin D and COPD

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The postulated medical benefits of vitamin D continue unabated. Every week, there is a new study which shows that vitamin D can cure an illness. For some time researchers have been postulating ...

Shamir Benji commented on Shamir Benji's post Vitamin D and COPD

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High blood pressure is a common ailment in society. This silent disorder if not treated can lead to devastating complications. Changing one's lifestyle and losing weight is the first choice in ...

Can Drinking Black Tea Lower Blood Pressure?

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The postulated medical benefits of vitamin D continue unabated. Every week, there is a new study which shows that vitamin D can cure an illness. For some time researchers have been postulating ...

Vitamin D and COPD

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Having diabetes is not good news. The disorder, even when it is well-controlled, leads to a number of lifelong complications. Most type 2 diabetics take either insulin or drugs to lower their ...

Popular Diabetic Drug has Anti-Cancer Properties

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Women who live in Europe, South and Central America continue to get confusing messages from their respective governments about their breast implants. The implants made by Poly Implant Prosthesis ...

Faulty Breast Implants: The Confusion Rages On

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Ever since it was reported that red wine may help delay heart disease, more promising effects of this beverage are reported on a weekly basis. One should be aware that the beneficial effects of ...

Red Wine and Breast Cancer

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All over cyberspace, plastic surgeons have created web pages to offer their types of services. Many also offer elegant Before and After pictures. Now, some surgeons have also resorted to ...

Online Deals for Plastic Surgery: Is It Ethical?

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Over the years, alternative health care practitioners have been advocating a variety of herbs and nutrients for the treatment of depression. One of the nutrients which is widely consumed by ...

Shamir Benji commented on Shamir Benji's post Can Inositol Help Reverse Depression?

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Many patients with depression continue to complain that the antidepressants they have been prescribed do not work. These individuals often go through many antidepressants, spending thousands of ...

Placebo Vs. Antidepressants: Which is Better?

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For many women, sex is not pleasurable. This problem is even more significant after menopause. There are countless remedies being sold in retail and health food stores to help women restore their ...

Boost Your Sex Life with DHEA

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Depression is a very difficult disorder to treat. Even though many drugs are available, most only work for a few years and then stop working. Consumers often go through a process of trial and ...

Blood Test to Assess Effectiveness of Antidepressant Medications

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There are hundreds of diet plans that are being marketed to help people lose weight and maintain good health. Unfortunately most of these diets are either not nutritionally adequate nor can they ...

Eat Low-Carbohydrate Diets Intermittently for Effective Weight Loss: Editorial

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Depression affects millions of people. The disorder can create havoc in the individual and everyone around them. While there are effective drug treatments, many have undesirable side effects. In ...

Vyvnase may Help Patients with Depression

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Millions of people consume mega-doses of fish oil everyday. There is a very strong belief among the public that this food supplement is the “Holy Grail.” The exact number of people who buy fish ...

Not all Fish Oil Supplements are Equal

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Despite the constant complaints and negative reports about psychiatric medications, current data indicate that at least 20 percent of Americans are on these drugs. Doctors have very little ...

Women Continue to be the Biggest Users of Psychiatric Drugs: Editorial

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There are millions of people who have trouble with a good night's rest. Some people have trouble falling asleep and yet others wake up early in the morning. Now there is a new formula of the ...

A Sleeping Pill for Those who Wake Up in the Middle of the Night

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No one argues that weight loss is an ordeal and requires a lot of motivation. There are hundreds of treatments for weight loss and the majority are just passing fads. While surgery does work, it ...

Chewing Hormonal Gum for Weight Loss: Editorial

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Millions of people consume a wide variety of soft drink beverages on a regular basis. In the last three decades, hundreds of varieties of soft drinks have been developed -- some are low-sugar, ...

Sugar Beverages and Blood Pressure

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a frightening disorder with no identifiable cause. Many hypotheses that claimed to explain why the progressive neurological disorder develops have come and gone over ...

Multiple Sclerosis and Narrowed Veins

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Everyone agrees that drinking large amounts of alcohol is not good for health. Now there is a research study showing that even low amounts of alcohol can increase the risk of breast cancer. The ...

Even Small Amount of Alcohol Increases Risk of Breast Cancer