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How Medications Affect Your Dental Health

During your first visit to the dentist’s office, you may have noticed a medical history and medications section in your file. Your dentist will collect…

May 16, 2024

6 Drugs That Can Make You Gain Weight

For many of us, lowering our risk of chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, or even chronic pain, includes monitoring and maintaining our weight. Frankie Kidd, who takes…

Oct 20, 2023

Meds That Mess With Your Thyroid

About one in eight people in the U.S. will develop some sort of thyroid condition during their lifetimes, according to the American Thyroid Association, so there’s an…

Jul 19, 2023

Thyroid Problems: Symptoms, Treatments and Side Effects

What Is A Thyroid? Your thyroid is a gland in the front of your neck that makes two hormones: thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). These hormones guide…

Jul 5, 2023

8 Drugs That Can Cause Vitamin Deficiencies

A few years ago, my doctor prescribed me high doses of omeprazole (a proton pump inhibitor) to treat acid reflux twice a day. I didn’t…

Nov 16, 2022

5 Common Drug Reactions That Affect the Skin

Drug Allergies Affecting the Skin are Common Of all the side effects that can result from the use of medication, drug allergies affecting the skin are…

Jan 31, 2021

Suicidal Ideation: It May be Your Medications

Shortly after she was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, Sarah Lawrence was prescribed Otezla (apremilast). In less than two months after beginning the drug treatment, she…

Dec 30, 2020

Effective Treatments for Fibromyalgia Sufferers

From the outside, a person with fibromyalgia looks perfectly normal. But on the inside, it can feel like the pain volume dial has been cranked…

Dec 11, 2019