The leading causes of death in the United States (U.S.) are heart disease and strokes.…
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COVID Myocarditis risks in children
Soon after the first COVID-19 vaccines appeared in 2021, reports of rare cases of heart inflammation, or Covid myocarditis risk,…
5 Lifestyle Changes to Maintain Heart Health
There are plenty of reasons to take better care of your heart. Perhaps the best is that diseases of this…
Hispanic Health Risks
This month, we celebrate what makes Hispanic heritage wonderful and unique. We’d like to bring up another way to acknowledge…
Prescription heart medications are so common — millions of Americans currently take at least one to treat everything from high blood pressure and high cholesterol to heart failure and stroke — that it’s easy to assume that they are easy on your system, that the side effects must be minor because so many people take them. Not so. One of the two top reasons patients give for not taking heart drugs as prescribed is “fear of side effects.”
Heart and Thyroid Drugs – Juul Vape
Some heart drugs can cause suicide risks, Juul shipped a million contaminated pods and hormone replacement therapy during pregnancy doesn’t cause language delays in the children.
EBTA is off-patent so it’s inexpensive, but no drug company will push it.
If you have cardiovascular disease or a heart condition, you might want to lay off eating marijuana edibles as they…
The Dark Side of Medications
By Cynthia Brown : Everyone has a story about the negative side effects of taking medications, both prescribed and over-the-counter.…
Do Statins Need a Re-Think?
Have you heard of PCSK9 inhibitors? If you read our FDA Watch post about them, you know that this new…
Why a Women’s Health Conference?
Did you know that women have different side effects to medicine than men have? For example, a beneficial side effect…
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