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Prescription Heat Damage: Is Your Medicine Cooking in a Delivery Truck?
Hot trucks and scorching mailboxes can cause prescription heat damage. Learn how to protect your medicine and your health.
Was Linus Pauling Right About Vitamin C for Cancer and Brain Health?
Could Linus Pauling have been right all along? New findings support Vitamin C for cancer, colds and brain health. Why does medicine resist?
How Safe Is Vaginal Estrogen Cream to Prevent Urinary Tract Infections?
Many women experience recurrent urinary tract infections, especially after menopause. When they use vaginal estrogen cream, they suffer less.
Is NyQuil or Benadryl A Good Way To Stay Asleep?
Do you wake up each night to go to the bathroom? Will a nighttime cold or cough medicine like Nyquil or Benadryl solve the problem? Raisins?
Nighttime Restless Legs Wreck Lives, Sleep, and Sanity
Often dismissed, this condition steals sleep and sanity. Learn how nighttime restless legs disorder upends lives—and how remedies might help.
Will Praluent, Repatha or Lipfendra Work If You Can’t Stand a Statin?
What can you do when your doctor insists you must take a statin but you experience unbearable muscle pain and weakness. Praluent or Repatha?
Unexpected GLP-1 Side Effects: Do They Cause Vision Problems Common in Diabetes?
It can take the FDA decades to discover bad drug reactions. Are there unexpected GLP-1 side effects with Ozempic and Wegovy that affect eyes?
How Can You Make Plantar Warts Disappear?
Remedies to make plantar warts disappear range from simple–soaking the foot in hot water or Listerine–to complex, such as silver duct tape.
The New Alzheimer Biomarker versus Nuns Who Defied Dementia
A new Alzheimer biomarker predicts dementia decline. The long-running Nun Study reveals why plaques and tangles do not tell the whole story.
Show 1446: The Science of Strong Bones: Lifestyle, Medication and Movement (Archive)
For strong bones, you need weight-bearing exercise and a diet with adequate protein, vitamin D and calcium. Certain drugs can weaken bone.
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