Preventive Health Care
Dale Burg is a comedy writer, but, one thing she takes very seriously is her heart health. “My grandparents had all died of heart disease. My brother had a heart scare and had a stent and so that kind of drove it home for me as well to be cautious,” says Dale.
She wasted no time getting on a heart health regimen after consulting with her cardiologist. “I exercise four times a week. I take two of the baby aspirin a day,” says Dale. Dale is definitely on the right track.
“The big part about being proactive about your own health is prevention, prevention is the major weapon,” says cardiologist, Dr. Nieca Goldberg.
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HEART CAT SCANS
Fast heart CAT scans have been a screening test in limbo. The exact role and place for this exam, which is becoming more widely available, hasn’t been well defined, until now.
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GETTING KIDS TO TAKE THEIR MEDS
“I don’t like it, I don’t want it!” says four year old Stephanie.
Words that must sound familiar to any parent who has wondered how to get a child to take medicine.
Rachel Toro-Ramos says giving her daughter her medicine can sometimes be more like a wrestling match.
“I have days when my daughter just refuses and we have to literally struggle and hold her down and put it in her mouth.”
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New MS drugs are making it easier for MS patients to cope with the difficult illness.
“All of a sudden, sort of felt like the world, the rug was pulled from out under me. The weakness, the feeling, it’s a fatigue that’s very hard to explain,” says Joe Giles.
3 years ago, Joe Giles was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He tried several medications but they were all giving his terrible side affects.
“There’s high fever, and severe muscle aches,” says Joe.
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DRUG DISCOUNT CARDS
On this presidential inaugural day, one of the major concerns for Americans for the next four years is affordable medical coverage.
This is especially true regarding prescriptions.
Now, several drug makers have gotten together to offer price breaks for low income families, so that they have access to affordable prescription drugs. These are major companies, including Astrazeneca, Glaxo Smith Kline and Pfizer. They are saying they will provide savings on medicines for millions of working-age Americans.
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CELEBREX HEART DANGER
THERE IS A WARNING TONIGHT CONCERNING THE POPULAR PAIN KILLING DRUG CELEBREX.
PFIZER, THE COMPANY THAT MAKES CELEBREX, HAS ANNOUNCED A GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED CANCER-PREVENTION TRIAL OF CELEBREX WAS HALTED AFTER PATIENTS TAKING IT HAD MORE THAN TWICE AS MANY HEART ATTACKS AS PATIENTS TAKING A DUMMY PLACEBO PILL.
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VISUALLY IMPAIRED FIND MEDICINE LABELS TOO SMALL TO READ
74 year old Teresa Olender struggles to keep track of all of her medications.
“One is for the heart, one is for blood pressure, one is a water pill and the other one is for cholesterol,” says Teresa. Teresa’s problem is that she has poor eyesight, making it hard for her to the read the labels on her medicines.
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Taking a drug used for Alzheimer’s disease may help deal with the memory loss experienced by people with multiple sclerosis, according to a study published in the medical journal Neurology.
The finding could help the large percentage, nearly fifty percent of MS patients, who suffer from cognitive problems.
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MAILBOXES AND PRESCRIPTION MEDICINES
Should you be sending for your prescription drugs in the mail, especially if you live in a viciously warm climate?
The latest research shows what happens to medicines and why they don’t work if exposed to temperature extremes.
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STATIN STUDY
For the millions of Americans undergoing angioplasty, the procedure that props open clogged heart arteries, there is new research which shows that a simple medication i.e. statins, can lower one’s risk of having a heart attack during the procedure.
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