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Balancing Diet and Medications to Treat Hyperkalemia

When you have hyperkalemia, you have too much potassium in your blood. You can lower your potassium levels with diet, medicine, or both. What Your Doctor May Recommend Your doctor or health care provider will help you create a treatment plan that’s right for you. You may need to follow a diet that’s low in...Read More

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Hyperkalemia, kidney disease, kidney failure, potassium

How to Tell If Your Psoriasis Treatment Is Working

There isn’t a cure for psoriasis yet. But if you have the condition, there are lots of treatment options available. The trick is to find one that works for you. Different people respond to different treatments, says Ashley Jenkins, MD, a dermatologist and adjunct professor of dermatology at the University of Missouri in Columbia. In...Read More

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How to Keep Your Menu in Line

About 3 million Americans have high potassium, or hyperkalemia, because of kidney disease, heart failure, or poorly controlled diabetes. Potassium is an important nutrient that helps your nerves and muscles, including your heart, work the right way. But if you have too much in your blood, it can be dangerous and lead to heart problems....Read More

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Hyperkalemia, kidney disease, kidney failure, potassium

What FDA Input Means for Risks and Benefits of LASIK

Two years ago, Benjamin Wilbur had LASIK surgery to correct his vision. “I have three youngish kids, and I felt I was constantly being hit in the face and my glasses were being knocked askew,” he says. He also didn’t like having “foggy” glasses when wearing a mask during the pandemic. After a 10-minute consultation...Read More

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dry eye, eye health, eye pain, eye surgery, lasik

Should We Be Testing Everyone’s DNA?

In 2014, during a routine medical appointment, a physician’s assistant began asking questions about her relatives and their experiences with cancer. As she mentally climbed her family tree, she recalled her grandmother on her mother’s side, and an aunt, had both been diagnosed with cancer. The details were fuzzy. (She’d later learn that both had...Read More

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DNA screening, DNA testing, genetic screening, genetic testing

Is It Time to Try a Biologic for CSU?

If you have chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU), also called chronic hives, and treatments like antihistamines and steroids aren’t helping, you may be a good candidate for biologics. What Are Biologics? Biologics are medicines that target specific antibodies, molecules, and cell receptors that cause inflammation and may trigger an allergic reaction like CSU. Omalizumab (Xolair) is...Read More

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Pandemic Brought Surge in Teen Drug Overdose Deaths

Deaths of teens from drug overdoses soared starting in late 2019, and though they appear to be on the decline, they remain much higher than in 2019, U.S. health officials report. Most of these deaths are due to illegally made fentanyl mixed with other drugs, said study author Lauren Tanz, an epidemiologist at the U.S....Read More

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Ways to Set Good Ones and Ditch Your Bad Habits

Habits are like being on autopilot, and they’re the key to reaching your goals. Habits are not resolutions: Those are the commitments to change you make on January 1, your birthday, or when you’ve had some sort of wake-up call. Habits aren’t behaviors, either. Instead, habits are impulses that drive you to do certain things...Read More

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Facing Death Without Fear: Psychedelics for End-of-Life Care

For Christine “Cat” Parlee, who has stage IV metastatic melanoma, the Roots to Thrive program was a godsend. Not that she expects it to save her life: The probability of surviving advanced melanoma for 5 years is about 15%-20%, according to the American Cancer Society, and Parlee was diagnosed in 2017. But an innovative approach...Read More

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death anxiety, end-of-life-care, fear of death, psilocybin, Psychedelics

Getting More Daylight Could Mean Better Sleep at Night

Falling asleep later and waking up later this time of year? It could be you need to reset your sleep/wake clock. Going outside to get more daylight exposure – especially during the morning – might help, new evidence suggests. Yes, the use of electric lights and screens in the evening can mess with your sleep,...Read More

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