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Anti-anxiety Medications
Psychiatrists, family doctors or other doctors can prescribe medications for anxiety disorders. These doctors often work closely with psychologists, social workers or therapists...
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Antidepressant Medications
Depression can make you feel hopeless and worthless and cause you to lose interest in everyday activities such as work, hobbies or sex. Depression is a common illness that costs..
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Beware of Internet Pharmacies
Buying prescription drugs on-line can save you time, keep you dry on cold, rainy nights and provide money-saving offers you can't get at the drugstore...
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Buying Drugs Safely Online
Today it is possible to order prescription drugs and have them delivered to your home with a click of a mouse. But is it safe to order drugs on the Internet? Is this risky?..
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Cotton Mouth? It Could Be Your Meds
If your mouth has been feeling dry lately, you aren't imagining it. Dry mouth is common among older people; however, it is not a normal part of aging...
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Generic or Brand Name Drugs: Which is Best?
The doctor has prescribed a generic drug. As you look at the prescription form on your way out of the doctor's office, you wonder, "Is it just as good?"..
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How Well Do Your Medicines Mix?
Let's say you take medicine to lower cholesterol as well as something for that bothersome foot fungus. Or you take aspirin for heart protection along with Ginkgo biloba, an..
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Is a Statin Right for You?
Without cholesterol, we couldn't live. Our bodies create it to form cell membranes, several hormones and fat-dissolving bile acids, among other things. However, most of us have..
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Is the Flu Shot for You?
By Lila Havens, Staff Writer Each year, millions of Americans get the flu (influenza). Most people have muscle aches, chills and a fever for a week or so, but some get much..
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Keep Your Meds Under Control
You might think, "How hard can it be to take medication?" Well, there are tons of possibilities of what can go wrong whether you are taking one medication or several. Drugs are..
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Managing Your Meds in Your Senior Years
There's the green pill in the morning before eating and again before you go to bed. After breakfast, it's the eye drops and nasal spray. Then, there's the yellow capsule with..
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Medication Safety for the Elderly
Wrinkles and age spots aren't the only changes that happen to our bodies as we age. Changes also happen within our bodies - affecting the way we handle medications...
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Medications for Osteoarthritis
Arthritis pain If you have osteoarthritis and have pain, you are by no means alone. More than 40 million Americans suffer from some form of arthritis, and many have chronic pain..
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Mood Stabilizers (Anti-manic Medications)
Anti-manic medications treat a mental illness called bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder, or manic-depressive illness, is characterized by cycling mood changes: severe highs..
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My Medication Record
You and/or your caregiver can use this simple form to record the medicines your doctor prescribed for you as well as any over the counter medicines you are taking. The form has..
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My Medication Schedule
It's easy to lose track of when to take your medications. A medication worksheet can help you know which medications you take. It will help you know when to take your..
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Painkillers and Addiction: Are You at Risk?
Your back is killing you. Over-the-counter pain relievers aren't helping. Your doctor wants to prescribe a stronger drug, but you're not sure. Aren't painkillers addictive?..
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Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Pain Medicine
How much medicine should I take? How often? If I don't get relief from my pain, can I take more medicine? If the dosage is increased, how much of an increase should there be?..
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Rx Questions? Ask Your Pharmacist
Drug companies advertise heavily these days and urge you to "talk to your doctor" about their drugs, but there's another important health care professional you should also be..
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The 'Other' Drug Problem
How much do you know about the prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medications you're taking? What you know in terms of even the most basic information, such as correct..
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Understanding Medicare Part D
According to some recent surveys, many senior citizens are thoroughly confused about "Part D" of Medicare, which involves prescription drug coverage...
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Understanding 'Off-Label' Drugs
Your doctor has prescribed a drug you've never tried before. You read the materials that come with the medication, which say it treats a disease that is completely different from..
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Understanding 'Off-Label' Drugs
Your doctor has prescribed a drug you've never tried before. You read the materials that come with the medication, which say it treats a disease that is completely different from..
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What You Need to Know About Over-the-Counter Drugs
You can just walk into any grocery store and buy them. No trip to the doctor. No prescription form. It's a safe way to feel better without the hassle, right? Maybe not...
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Why Some Meds Don't Mix
Many Americans take at least one prescription drug a day. Include vitamins, supplements and over-the-counter pills, and that can add up to a handful. We take pills for everything..
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Why You Need to Take Your Meds
Those pills for your blood pressure or your cholesterol are a pain to remember. Besides, you feel fine. Why do you need them?..
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