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• The Promise of Tanezumab
• What Should You Do About Bone Spurs?
• A Negative Verdict for Glucosamine and Chondroitin Supplements
• Getting Ready For Hip or Knee Replacement Surgery
• That Other Itis Â… Bursitis
• A Pain in the Rotator Cuff
• Arthritis in the Shoulder
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• Gout and Soda: What's the Connection?
• Joint Replacement: It's Not Just Knees and Hips
• Chronic Lyme Disease vs. Post-Lyme Disease
• Fibromyalgia: Understanding a Mysterious Ailment
• Chronic Pain: It's Not Just About Your Joints
• The Pros and Cons of Minimally Invasive Hip-Replacement Surgery
• Spinal Stenosis -- Osteoarthritis Is Often To Blame
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• 6 Simple Stretches for Pain-Free Travel
• Is Surgery Your Best Option for a Herniated Disk?
• Supervised Exercise for Fast Back Pain Relief
• 6 Exercises to Build Bone Strength
• How Osteoporosis Develops
• Don't Forget Your Pillow
• What Is Passive Physical Therapy?
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• Osteopenia: To Treat or Not to Treat?
• Osteoporosis and Digestive Disorders
• Back Pain – Is It All in Your Head?
• Advice To Help You Get a Good Night's Sleep With an Aching Back
• Is it Ever Okay To Discontinue Your Osteoporosis Medication?
• 6 Exercises To Help Build Bone Strength and Help Prevent Osteoporosis
• A Back-Strengthening Program
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• Research Update on Colorectal Cancer
• Clinical Trial Terminology Explained
• The Virtues of Virtual Colonoscopy
• Preparing For Your Colonoscopy
• When Should You Have Your First Colonoscopy?
• Who's At Risk For Colorectal Cancer?
• Coffee – Not Green Tea – Protects Against Colon Cancer
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• Flat Colon Lesions: Cause for Concern?
• Making Your Colonoscopy Count
• Coping With the Mental Side Effects of Chemotherapy
• Surviving the Emotional Aftershock of Colorectal Cancer
• How Old Is Too Old for Colorectal Cancer Surgery?
• Alternative and Complementary Therapies for Colon Cancer
• Time for Your Colonoscopy? Here are 9 Tips To Make It Easier
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• Antidepressant Medication "Poop Out"
• What's Minor About Minor Depression?
• Insomnia: Nature or Nurture?
• Pristiq: A New SNRI for Depression
• Clue to the Cause of Depression in Older Men
• How Pets Comfort Us
• Depression and Your Health
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• What Happens When Stress Doesn't Go Away
• The Pain-Mood Connection
• Report on Substance Abuse and Aging
• Anxiety and Your Physical Health
• Eating Disorders: Not Just for the Young
• Coping With Panic Attacks
• Managing Anxiety Without Drugs
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• Putting Portion Control to the Test
• New Approach to Slow Diabetic Kidney Disease
• Why You Should Consider Insulin Therapy For Type 2 Diabetes
• Meet the Diabetes Nurse Educator
• Diagnosing Diabetes with the HbA1c Blood Test
• Clues to the Cause of Type 1 Diabetes
• Why Is My Blood Glucose High?
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• Traveling Safely With Diabetes
• Understanding How Insulin Regulates Blood Glucose
• The Role of Insulin in Blood Glucose Control
• Getting a Better Look at Blood Sugar Levels
• Making Sense of Type 2 Diabetes Medications
• Diabetic Neuropathy: An Underdiagnosed Complication
• Is it Type 2 Diabetes or LADA?
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• Alternative Goes Conventional for IBS
• The Truth About Food Safety Claims
• Should You Try a Gluten-Free Diet?
• What Works for Chronic Constipation
• The Promise of Probiotic Yogurt
• Best Practices on Treating GERD With Lifestyle Changes
• Probiotics and Hypnosis: Two Promising Complementary Therapies for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
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• 7 Tips to Help You Reduce Bloating
• How Your Gut Can Affect Your Bones
• What to Expect From Your Endoscopy
• Four Relaxation Techniques to Soothe Your Digestive Discomfort
• How to Banish Bloating
• Digestive Disorders Glossary
• Recognizing 12 Common Digestive Disorders
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• Primer on Prostatitis
• Alternative Treatment for Chronic Prostatitis May Help
• What Causes BPH?
• Should You Try Combination Treatment for Your BPH?
• The Importance of a BPH-Friendly Diet
• A Lexicon of BPH Surgical Techniques
• When Should You Treat Your BPH?
• Talking About Prostatitis With Dr. Alexander
• Should You Avoid Alcohol If You Have BPH?
• Can You Prevent BPH With NSAIDs?
• Weight Gain Triggers BPH
• Get Moving to Protect Your Prostate
• More Good News About Vegetables
• Dialogue With Dr. A: Will Prostatitis Affect My Quality of Life?
• Dialogue With Doctor M: Are my Urinary Problems Caused by LUTS, BPH, or LOO?
• Prostatitis--Nailing Down the Diagnosis
• Do You Have BPH?
• What Causes Prostatitis?
• Should You Consider Watchful Waiting?
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• In the Pipeline: New Treatments for BPH
• BPH: New Discoveries May Lead to Better Treatment
• What Does It Mean? PSA Terminology Explained
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• Pill Splitting Advice
• Urgent Care or the ER – Which is the Right Choice?
• Chronotherapy: Taking Medications at the Right Time
• Should You Take Antibiotics Before Dental Work?
• Bunion Basics
• Energy Drinks: Beverages With an Unhealthy Boost
• Finding Relief From Allergies
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• Do You Have a Thyroid Disorder?
• Your Cosmetic Dentisty Options
• How the FDA Approval Process Works
• Are You At Risk For Gallstones?
• Chronic Pain: Johns Hopkins Symptoms and Remedies
• Breathe Easier With An Air Purifier
• Good Nutrition in a Hurry
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• Flu shot a MUST for People with Heart Disease
• Is White Wine Good For Your Heart?
• Key Heart Attack Prevention Strategies
• Can Anxiety Cause a Heart Attack?
• The Low-Carb/Low-Fat Diet Debate
• Exercise Safety and Your Heart
• Beverages With an Unhealthy Boost
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• What You Should Know About C-Reactive Protein
• Ways to Boost Your HDL Cholesterol
• Zapping Abnormal Heart Rhythms
• The Best Screening Tests for People Without Symptoms of Heart Disease
• When Atherosclerosis Strikes in the Legs
• The New Blood Lipid Tests -- Sizing Up LDL Cholesterol
• Preventing Heart Disease in Women – Updated Guidelines
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• 7 Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Blood Pressure Medication
• Transcendental Meditation and Your Blood Pressure
• Taking the Salt Away
• Exercise Your Way to Lower Blood Pressure
• Masked Hypertension: What It's Doing to Your Arteries
• Tweaking Your Diet to Lower Your Blood Pressure
• DASH Diet Tips
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• Are You At Risk For Vascular Dementia?
• Controlling Difficult-to-Control Hypertension
• When Your Heart Feels Like It's Skipping a Beat
• Guidelines on Controlling Pain Without Raising Your Blood Pressure
• Get Moving To Lower Your Blood Pressure
• Thriving on a Low-Salt Diet
• Advice to Help You Remember Your Blood Pressure Medication
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• Got Asthma? Get a Flu Shot
• Is Fiber Good For Your Lungs? Stay Tuned
• Getting Rid of Dust Mites
• True or False: Thunderstorms Trigger Asthma Attacks
• COPD Flare-Up Advice
• All That Wheezes Is Not Asthma
• Is Your Cough A Sign of Something Serious?
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• Four Steps to Better Asthma Control
• COPD: Catching the "Silent Killer"
• Home Monitoring for Sleep Apnea
• Looking At How The Lungs Work
• Advice on Home Air Cleaners
• 9 Common Mold Myths
• Why Popular Asthma Drugs Got the Black Box Warning
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• The High Cost of Information Overload
• Another Reason to Nap
• Keep Your Friends, Keep Your Memory
• Rember: The Latest Alzheimer's Drug
• 10 Alzheimer's Treatment Myths Revealed
• When Is It Time To Stop Driving?
• Caregiving from Afar
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• Habilitation: A Better Caregiving Approach
• Guarding Your Memory
• Activities to Engage the Dementia Patient
• Caregivers -- The Hidden Patients
• New Frontiers in Alzheimer's Research
• Low-Tech Screening Tests for Dementia
• Your Memory Timeline
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• Testing Your Vitamin D Levels
• Phytochemicals: Essential to Good Health
• Oats Stand the Test of Time
• 6 Reasons To Love Beans
• 7 Keys to Cutting Calories
• Can You Be Fat But Fit?
• Trans Fat-Free Tips
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• The Psychology of Mindless Eating
• 7 Strategies to Rev Up Your Aging Metabolism
• Changing Behavior to Lose Weight
• Dietary Supplements: Yea or Nay?
• A Guide to Choosing Lean Meats and Poultry
• 7 Easy and Effective Weight-Loss Strategies
• Your Aging Metabolism -- Tips on Revving Your Metabolic Motor
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• Drug Safety and the Elderly
• When Your Health Insurance Company Asks You to Switch Medications
• What Is a Lifestyle Drug?
• Medication Sharing -- Common and Dangerous
• Viagra for Women?
• Health Reporting Comes Up Short
• Why Generic Drugs Cost Less
• How Antibiotics and Other Drugs Work
• How Long Do Medications Last?
• Why You Should Talk to Your Pharmacist
• Remembering to Take Your Medication
• The FDA Approval Process
• Understanding How Our Body Responds to Drugs As We Age
• Using Pain Relief Patches Safely
• 5 Steps To Help You Avoid Common Drug Side Effects
• Adverse Drug Reactions and Other Age-Related Medication Concerns
• What Is an Authorized Generic Drug?
• The Connection Between Sedatives and Fractures in Elderly Patients
• What Is Pharmacogenomics?
• Ask the Doctor About Nanopharmaceuticals
• How To Dispose of Your Medications
• Affording Your Medications
• The Risks of Drug Flipping
• Monitoring Your Medications
• Using Acetaminophen Safely
• Chemical Culprit in Grapefruit-Drug Interactions Identified
• Should Physicians Use Secret Placebos?
• Big Pharma and Generic Drugs
• Shingles Vaccine Update
• Direct-To-Consumer Drug Ads -- What's in them for you?
• Medication and the Media
• Using Generic Drugs Safely
• Safe Use of Antibiotics
• Your Pharmacist -- An Underutilized Resource
• Drug Safety in the News
• The High Cost of Chemotherapy
• Drugstore Aisle Updates on Warfarin, DHEA, Black Cohosh
• Generic Drugs
• Drugstore Aisle Updates on Amplichip, St. John's Wort and Gleevec, and medication mistakes
• How Aging Affects the Body's Response to Drugs
• Ask the Doctor About Your Prescriptions
• Prescription Drugs That Cause Weight Gain
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• How Antibiotics and Other Drugs Work
• What Is Pharmacogenics and Can It Help You?
• The Life Cycle of a Pill
• User-Friendly Information Inserts
• When Herbs and Prescription Drugs Don't Mix
• New Choices in Sleeping Pills
• How Medications Work
• Prescription Drugs Glossary
• How To Stay Safe on Coumadin (warfarin)
• Ordering Your Drugs Online
• Did I Take That Pill...Or Not?
• Will This Medication Work? Look to Your Genes.
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• Urine-Based Prostate Cancer Screening Test Looks Promising
• How Old Is Too Old For an Annual PSA Test?
• The Gleason Behind the Gleason Score
• BRCA-2 Gene Mutation and Prostate Cancer
• The Case for Active Surveillance
• Getting A Second Opinion
• Why the PSA Velocity Test Is So Valuable
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• Proton Beam Therapy for Prostate Cancer
• Vitamin D and Prostate Cancer
• Taxotere: Chemotherapy for Advanced Prostate Cancer
• Testosterone-Replacement Therapy: Does It Increase Prostate Cancer Risk?
• Understanding Your Pathology Report
• Simple Steps to Protect Yourself Against Prostate Cancer
• Advice to Help You Cope With Side Effects of Prostate Cancer Treatments
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• Practical Advice to Help You See Better When You Drive
• Should You Take Avandia for Diabetic Retinopathy?
• Advance in Glaucoma Diagnosis
• Fight Cataracts With Antioxidants
• Cataract Basics
• Living Better With Poor Vision
• Remedies for Allergy Eyes
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• Your Glaucoma Treatment Options
• 4 Promising Treatments for AMD
• Glaucoma: A Family Matter
• How the Eye Works
• Advice To Help You See Better When You Drive
• Learning More About Antioxidants and Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• Farsighted? LASIK Isn't Your Only Option
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• Testing Your Vitamin D Levels
• Phytochemicals: Essential to Good Health
• Oats Stand the Test of Time
• 6 Reasons To Love Beans
• 7 Keys to Cutting Calories
• Can You Be Fat But Fit?
• Trans Fat-Free Tips
• More alerts...
• The Psychology of Mindless Eating
• 7 Strategies to Rev Up Your Aging Metabolism
• Changing Behavior to Lose Weight
• Dietary Supplements: Yea or Nay?
• A Guide to Choosing Lean Meats and Poultry
• 7 Easy and Effective Weight-Loss Strategies
• Your Aging Metabolism -- Tips on Revving Your Metabolic Motor
• More Special Reports...