Important Information & Medical Advice
How To Maintain Your Metabolism
From Consumer Reports, by Jeanine Detz, 1/12/2019 Do you find that, lately, you get full more quickly or your weight has started creeping up and you’re not sure why? A…
Am I really allergic to penicillin?
From JAMA Patient Page, edited and condensed: Most people who report allergies to penicillin (PCN) are not allergic. About 1 in 10 patients has a PCN allergy noted in their…
Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis
Diverticulosis is a condition in which small pouches (called diverticula) form at weak spots in the wall of the colon.
HOW TO LOWER YOUR CHOLESTEROL WITHOUT DRUGS from Harvard Medical School
You can begin to reduce your “bad” LDL cholesterol by making a few simple changes in your diet.
END OF LIFE ISSUES: 5 commonly held myths
Some people don’t have a health care power of attorney or living will because they don’t realize how important these documents are. Others worry that such documents mean they are signing their lives away. Not so.
FINANCIAL NEWS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES
Individuals with disabilities and families caring for disabled loved ones have new options to accumulate savings without jeopardizing their eligibility for need-based government help. The new accounts are state-sponsored and tax free and are called…
Human Papilloma Virus
In a typical year in the United States about 150 people die from meningococcus, four from tetanus, none from diphtheria, 20 from pertussis, and roughly 4,000 from cancers caused by HPV. People are more than 20 times more likely to die from HPV than from the other four diseases combined.