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May 18 2013

Boomers and beyond: A 5-step action plan for keeping your heart healthy

heart health

(BPT) – More baby boomers and older adults are taking a proactive approach to heart health. Living a heart-healthy lifestyle in your golden years and dealing with any type of diagnosis head-on is the smart way to keep your heart pumping strong for many years to come. Following these five easy steps can help you [...]

May 17 2013

Living with chronic pain? Find the right help

chronic pain

(BPT) – When a person is in pain, he or she will seek options to attempt to reduce or eliminate the pain. For minor pains like headaches, muscle aches and small wounds, often over-the-counter drugs can help reduce suffering. But people with chronic pain may have to search for other solutions. More than 100 million [...]

May 17 2013

Untreated hearing loss can strain relationships with loved ones, but there is hope

hearing loss

(BPT) – Hearing loss is much more common than most people realize. In fact, it is such a prevalent condition that only arthritis and hypertension affect more people. If left untreated, the consequences of hearing loss can be severe and greatly impact the quality of life and personal relationships of those affected. Worst of all, [...]

Apr 19 2013

Good dietary attention will keep you warm

warm

(NC)—Although some places in Canada experience a more extreme drop in temperature than others during the winter months, they all have one wintery thing in common: cold. The good news is that there is plenty you can do to help your body’s natural thermometer stay at that optimum level and get you through the frigid [...]

Apr 18 2013

Genomic testing helps breast cancer patients make chemotherapy decision

Genomic testing

(NC)—A new genomic test may provide patients with certain types of early-stage breast cancer critical information about whether they actually benefit from chemotherapy or if they could safely avoid the treatment and it’s long lasting side effects such as hair loss, nausea and fatigue. The genomic test, called Oncotype DX, provides patients with a Recurrence [...]

Apr 18 2013

Judge urges province to fund breast cancer test

breast cancer

(NC)—Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer for women in Alberta. It is estimated that one in eight Albertan women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Justice Kristine Eidsvik, a judge with Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench, was diagnosed with stage 1, grade 2 breast cancer last fall, underwent a [...]

Apr 17 2013

Talking saves lives for those with eating disorders

eating disorders

(NC)— Public announcements regarding the numbers of people suffering from debilitating depression, anxiety, phobias and so on seem to be on the increase.   According to the Canadian Mental Health Association (www.cmha.ca), one in five Canadians will experience a mental illness, with one in 12 experiencing an anxiety disorder. One might begin to question the research [...]

Mar 26 2013

Be Sure to Discuss All Your Symptoms With Your Doctor – The Highs and Lows of Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder

(BPT) – Bipolar disorder is a condition of extremes that can affect both how you feel and how you act. It includes bipolar mania–extremely high moods that last at least a week–and bipolar depression–depressive moods or lows that last for at least two weeks and for most of the day, nearly every day. Most people [...]

Mar 26 2013

School Access to Life-Threatening Allergy Treatment Aided by Mylan Specialty’s School Program

Allergy

(BPT) – With the school year well underway, students and teachers have fallen comfortably into their daily routines. Diversions – Celebration! Field trip! New lunch in the cafeteria! – are greeted with excitement, but for children with potentially life-threatening allergies, it’s important to remember that part of their routine must be to always avoid their [...]

Mar 26 2013

Knowing your health heritage: the familial link of diseases

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(BPT) – Family members can have many things in common, including physical characteristics and personality traits. While some traits are obvious, like having red hair or blue eyes, some shared traits are not as obvious, such as the risk for developing a common medical condition, like high cholesterol, or a rare disease. A rare disease [...]

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