All posts by LadyLively

  • Health Highlights: Nov. 18, 2019

    Trump's Pledge to Ban Flavored E-Cigs Goes Up in Smoke Bipartisan Bill to Curb Drug Costs Backed by White House Quest Beef Cat Food Recalled New Sickle Cell Disease Drug Approved by FDA

    • Posted November 18, 2019
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  • Cheap, Older Gout Drug Could Be a Lifesaver After Heart Attack

    A cheap drug that’s been around for centuries as a gout treatment might also shield heart attack survivors from future heart crises, new trial results show. The drug, colchicine, is derived from a plant called the autumn...

    • Posted November 18, 2019
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  • Health Tip: Eat for Now, and the Future

    Sustainable eating practices — knowing where food comes from and how to sustain the sources — helps us plan for now and the future, says the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Looking past the supermarket...

    • Posted November 18, 2019
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  • Health Tip: What to Do If You Fall

    Tripping over a box or slipping on a wet floor could leave you with a broken bone. And a fall could easily send an older person to the hospital, says the National Institute on Aging. If you...

    • Posted November 18, 2019
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  • Study Casts Doubt on Angioplasty, Bypass for Many Heart Patients

    Bypass operations, angioplasty and the placement of artery-opening stents: For decades, millions of Americans have undergone these expensive, invasive procedures to help treat clogged vessels. However, the results of a large and long-awaited clinical trial suggests that,...

    • Posted November 17, 2019
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  • Fetroja Approved to Treat Complicated Urinary Tract Infections

    Label warns higher mortality found in critically ill patients with multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections

    • Posted November 15, 2019
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  • High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy Tied to Future Heart Risks

    Pregnancy-related high blood pressure puts women at higher risk of heart disease later on, new research suggests. In the study, researchers analyzed an average of seven years of follow-up data on more than 220,000 women in the...

    • Posted November 15, 2019
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  • Flu Season Starting to Ramp Up in the South

    Whether you have caught the flu yet this season might depend on where you live. Flu levels are already climbing throughout the South, particularly in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, and Puerto Rico, according...

    • Posted November 15, 2019
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  • These Sports Are Most Likely to Send Young Americans to the ER

    Of all sports, football sends the most U.S. males to the emergency room, while cheerleading and gymnastics most often do the same for women and girls, a new report finds. And, overall, U.S. emergency departments see about...

    • Posted November 15, 2019
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  • AHA News: Drone-Delivered AEDs Fly a Step Closer to Saving Lives

    FRIDAY, Nov. 15, 2019 (American Heart Association News) — It was a race with life-or-death implications: Unmanned drones were pitted against traditional emergency responders to see which could get an automated external defibrillator to the rural site...

    • Posted November 15, 2019
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