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Emotional Support for Hearing Loss

Losing your hearing, or learning a loved one is, can bring about a range of uncomfortable emotions. Here's how you can deal with this tough transition.

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28.04.2024

Help for Eating Problems With Chewing, Swallowing, and Dysphagia

Trouble chewing and swallowing? WebMD shares six ways to make everything go down a little easier.

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28.04.2024

The Immunity Challenge: How aging affects your immune system

How does getting older affect your immune system? How can you keep those effects to a minimum? Your answers are here.

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28.04.2024

Eating for Longevity: Foods for a Long, Healthy Life

Staying healthy as you enter your golden years has a lot to do with your diet. Here are some foods that are good for your heart, your brain, your bones, and your muscles.

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28.04.2024

You Give Me (Spring) Fever

New Season Brings Boost of Energy, but Also Unplanned Pregnancies

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27.04.2024

Pre-Ozempic Obesity Drugs: Effective and Budget-Friendly

Before there was Ozempic, there were these cost-friendly, safe, and highly effective weight loss drugs. FDA-approved obesity medication like orlistat (Xenical), phentermine/topiramate (Qsymia), and naltrexone/bupropion extended release (Contrave) have been on the market for decades.

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27.04.2024

How Do You Get Health Care in Prison?

People in jails and prisons are entitled to health care, but it’s not always easy to access.

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27.04.2024

Get Mental Health Help in Your Rural Area

Finding mental health help can be harder in rural areas. Find out more about where to find resources.

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27.04.2024

Rural Living Means Planning Ahead for Your Health Care

You’ll need to plan for health care if you live in a rural area.

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27.04.2024

What Health Care Is Available if You’re Experiencing Homelessness?

If you currently don’t have reliable housing, you may want to know about health care for people who are experiencing homelessness.

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27.04.2024

A Human Response to Homelessness

Learn how you can reach out and help people who live without shelter in a safe and useful way.

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27.04.2024

Genes vs. Lifestyle: Which Matters More for Health?

Learn how genes and lifestyle interact to affect your health over the course of your life.

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27.04.2024

Sex: Frisky (and Safe) After 50

Safe sex is important at any age, but there are some issues that may be more common after 50.

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26.04.2024

What Trans Health Care for Minors Really Means

The meaning of gender-affirming care for young people, and what it looks like on the ground, isn’t always clear. The cloud of politics surrounding it has obscured the medical reality of how and when trans youth can get the treatments they seek.

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26.04.2024

A lot of children are about to be born in Ukraine. Will the war affect them for life?

Some of the most horrific images from the war so far have come from a maternity hospital in Mariupol bombed by Russian troops in mid-March. The upheaval spurs a troubling question: Could the stress and condition of war affect a fetus?

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26.04.2024

Cataract Surgery Tricky for Those With Past Radial Keratotomy

The surgery, known as RK, was considered a successful tool for correcting vision. But in recent years, many of these patients who went on to have cataract surgery are having major post-surgery complications.

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25.04.2024

Easing Tamoxifen, Aromatase Inhibitors’ Side Effects for Breast Cancer Treatment

Hormone therapy for breast cancer – such as tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors – can help prevent the cancer from coming back. If you have side effects, these things may help.

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25.04.2024

How Inclusive Is Your Senior Community?

As the baby boomers age, senior living communities are working on appealing to a more diverse generation.

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25.04.2024

Treating and Managing Mild COPD

Learn how to treat and manage mild COPD.

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25.04.2024

Weight Loss Drugs With Your Gym Membership? What to Know

Weights, aerobics, and … Wegovy? Some in the fitness industry are moving to dispense the popular GLP-1 medications to club members, combining the new, easier method of losing weight with the old, more challenging one.

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25.04.2024

What Is a Breast Cancer Pathology Report?

When you find out that you have breast cancer, your pathology report is an important part of your medical record. Get to know what it means.

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Considering a Clinical Trial When You Have COPD

Thinking about joining a clinical trial to help your COPD? Jean Rommes shares some of what to expect.

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Common Chemicals: Breast Cancer Link?

Experts discuss whether chemicals in our environment have a connection to the risk of breast cancer.

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Getting Cancer Care in Rural America

With fewer oncologists in rural areas than in cities, there are challenges in getting cancer care. Find out what may help bridge that gap.

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25.04.2024

Breast Cancer Mammography vs. Thermography

Mammography is still the tried-and-true, go-to tool doctors and the FDA recommend for screening for breast cancer. Thermography isn’t recommended.

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25.04.2024

Have Male Urinary Tract Symptoms? An App May Offer Relief

The urgent need to pee, a strangled flow and the feeling that you didn’t get it all out of you. Those are all the symptoms of male lower urinary tract problems and more than 72% of men experience at least one of them.

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How Lifestyle Changes Helped Minimize My COPD Episodes

Edi Mesa made these lifestyle changes in order to keep COPD episodes to a minimum.

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Are Transgender People at Risk of Breast Cancer?

Breast cancer can happen in people of any gender. Learn about what factors affect breast cancer risk in transgender people.

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Breast Cancer Chemo: Tips for Dealing With Neutropenia

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Rise and Shine: A Carefully Considered Morning Ritual That Can Brighten Your Day

Strategies for getting ready to be at your best each morning

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How to Manage Your COPD Flares

If you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), you’re probably no stranger to flares. If you take steps to address symptoms early and find ways to minimize triggers, you can dramatically lower your risk of flares.

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Where Will the Legit Health Info Go If TikTok Goes Dark?

If TikTok goes dark, it could render unavailable the work of those who have made the site a go-to for expert- and user-generated videos on topics that cover the spectrum of consumer health.

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Are 'Man Vans' Coming to a Parking Lot Near Your Soon?

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Heart-Liver Surgery May Help Patients Excluded from Transplant List

Patients with both heart and liver diseases are usually turned away from organ transplant lists. A new dual procedure aims to give them another chance.

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Period Problems: Menorrhagia, Skipped Periods, and More

Pain, bleeding, and missed periods may be signs that something is wrong.

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When Body Image Becomes a Problem for Female Athletes

Many female athletes struggle with body image, and it can put their physical and mental health at risk.

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Hate Taking Pills? For Some Drugs, You Won’t Need To

New dissolving films and mouth patches could replace pills for prescriptions

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20.04.2024

Talking to Your Doctor About CLL Clinical Trials

Are you looking for a clinical trial to help treat your chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)? Find out what you need to know before you sign up.

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Living With Advanced-Stage CLL

When chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) reaches its advanced stages, it can be stressful and exhausting. But you don’t have to go it alone.

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9 Nutrients Older Adults Need for Nutrition and Health

Emotional Support for Hearing Loss

Help for Eating Problems With Chewing, Swallowing, and Dysphagia

The Immunity Challenge: How aging affects your immune system

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Get Mental Health Help in Your Rural Area

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A Human Response to Homelessness

Genes vs. Lifestyle: Which Matters More for Health?

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What Trans Health Care for Minors Really Means

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Easing Tamoxifen, Aromatase Inhibitors’ Side Effects for Breast Cancer Treatment

How Inclusive Is Your Senior Community?

Treating and Managing Mild COPD

Weight Loss Drugs With Your Gym Membership? What to Know

What Is a Breast Cancer Pathology Report?

Considering a Clinical Trial When You Have COPD

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Getting Cancer Care in Rural America

Breast Cancer Mammography vs. Thermography

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How Lifestyle Changes Helped Minimize My COPD Episodes

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Period Problems: Menorrhagia, Skipped Periods, and More

When Body Image Becomes a Problem for Female Athletes

Hate Taking Pills? For Some Drugs, You Won’t Need To

Talking to Your Doctor About CLL Clinical Trials

Living With Advanced-Stage CLL

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