Healthwise Today
This blog covers the latest news that affects your health and well being. Also various healthcare products that you might be interested in, news about good drugs and bad drugs, various disease processes, ways to save money, and just about anything that affects your health. Most of all I want this to be educational and fun for you.
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Jan 05, 11 06:34PMThursday’s online version of the British Medical Journal has published an article by British journalist Brian Deer which once again refutes the connection between a vaccine and autism. The origi nal...
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Jan 03, 11 05:32PMThe first baby boomer became eligible for Medicare this past Saturday. If you thought the system was already in financial trouble just wait. Now a baby boomer will qualify for Medicare every 8 se conds...
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Dec 17, 10 11:59PMThe approval of a new antiplatelet drug which will eventually become a competitor with clopidogrel (Plavix) has been delayed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The new drug, ticagrel or...
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Dec 16, 10 03:21PMI’m sorry I have been away for a few weeks but we buried my dear sweet mother this past Saturday. We had to be with her 24 hours a day since July due to her progressively worsening dementia. I c ertainly...
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Nov 25, 10 11:15PMI can remember not too many years ago cardiac patients usually took aspirin as a preventative medication (anti platelet med) and if you were at a high risk for problems (and you could a fford...
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Nov 25, 10 10:35PMA federal regulation was issued November 22nd which may require some health insurance companies to return part of their premiums to some of their insureds. At the end of this year the Health and Human Services...
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Nov 24, 10 05:12PMIt appears that one of my favorite opioid pain medications will no longer be available in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked that propoxyphene (brand names Darvon and Darvocet...
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Nov 10, 10 06:13PMAn advisory committee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that the vaccine given to prevent meningitis be given as a booster to 11 and 12 year olds. The previous rec ommendation...
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Nov 10, 10 05:45PMThe results of two new meta analyses has revealed that the lower a person’s LDL (bad cholesterol) the better. There is benefit shown without risk all the way down to an LDL of 50 mg/dL The...
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Nov 02, 10 07:35PMNow that’s certainly not a title I would have ever expected to write! But evidently it is a problem. I apologize for being a couple of days late writing about this but I have been tied up...
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