When it comes to battling hot flashes due to menopause, physicians have an arsenal of hormone replacement products to choose from, including pills, skin patches, creams, and a topical prescription spray called Evamist. This estrogen product is sprayed on the inside of the forearm, between the elbow and the wrist. Dosage is one, two, or three […]
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Yesterday’s rain storms did nothing to alleviate the dreadful heat. Windows everywhere were steaming up with condensation. Even after dark, a short walk turned several of us into winners in an unofficial “who can sweat more” contest. Today is worse. Excessive heat warnings remain in effect, with temperatures reaching triple digits, and heat index predictions
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If you take the blood-thinning medication coumadin, your medication may have been recalled. The recall only involves Coumadin 1 mg tablet blister-packs distributed in the U.S. This recall does not involve Coumadin 1 mg supplied in bottles or any other strengths or dosage forms of the product. The following lot numbers are included in this
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If you use Advair Diskus inhalers for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), check your medicine cabinet. Your inhaler may be unsafe. In 2009, some Advair Diskus inhalers were stolen from a distribution warehouse near Richmond, Virginia. Now, they are starting to turn up in pharmacies. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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Florida is debating a proposed amendment to its state constitution that would try to block, at least symbolically, much of the proposed federal health care overhaul on the grounds that it tramples individual liberty. Read the full story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/health/policy/29lobby.html?_r=2&th&emc=th
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Senior partner and founder of the HensonFuerst Nursing Home Litigation Division, Thomas W. Henson, Sr., was featured on a July 8 blog entry hosted by Harry Newton, in which Tom stressed the importance of regular colonoscopies for men and women. As a six year survivor of colorectal cancer, Tom knows first-hand the importance or regular
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Nursing Home Attorney Anne Duvoisin highly recommends “Still Alice,” a must read for those who want to understand what Alzheimer’s disease and its progression is like for the patient suffering from the disease. “Still Alice” is a novel by Lisa Genova written from the perspective of a 50 year old world famous Harvard psychology professor who
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Peanut butter paste from a Cary, North Carolina, cracker factory owned by the Kellogg Company’s Austin Quality Foods division has been found to contain the same strain of salmonella that has sickened more than 500 people, including North Carolinians. As deaths have been attributed to this salmonella outbreak, blog viewers are encouraged to remain especially