What to do about high blood pressure?

by | Oct 19, 2011 | 2 comments

Including a special breed of purple potatoes in your diet is an effective way to naturally turn down the dial on blood pressure, according to a new study presented at the National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society. In this study, a group of 18...

Drug Shortages-Are You at Risk?

by | Oct 17, 2011 | 1 comment

Recently, AARP published a report on their online news magazine regarding the impending drug shortage that hospitals, clinics and pharmacies are beginning to face. It caught my attention because we discuss pharmaceuticals at length in many of our articles, and the...

Heart Health and Erectile Function Closely Linked

by | Oct 17, 2011 | 0 comments

Men with erectile dysfunction – a condition that affects more than 30 million men in the US alone—should follow the same lifestyle recommendations given to those with heart disease, a new “Urologic Clinics of North America” study found. In this study of 740 men, it...

Sarcoidosis- What is it?

by | Oct 14, 2011 | 5 comments

As we publish different articles on arthritis, we frequently get questions about other related diseases and conditions. One such common inquiry is about a condition called sarcoidosis.  This inflammatory condition is frustrating and painful for the 4 in 10,000 people...

Night Sweats and Menopause

by | Oct 10, 2011 | 3 comments

We get tons of email questions about symptoms for different conditions, and some of the most recent are those about menopause and peri-menopause.  There were a number of questions about stopping certain symptoms, specifically night sweats. I had a bugger of a time...