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Coronavirus and Asthma

What should you do if you have coronavirus and asthma symptoms? It’s a good idea to have a 30-day supply of food, nonprescription drugs, and other ...

Truth About Vitamin D: Why You Need Vitamin D

In the U.S., only people who live south of a line drawn from Los Angeles to Columbia, S.C., get enough sunlight for vitamin D production throughout...

Truth About Vitamin D: Drug Interactions

If you take steroid drugs regularly, discuss vitamin D with your doctor. On the other hand, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs and thiazide diuretic...

How to Build a New Social Life in Recovery

But in recovery, finding ways to have fun while also avoiding your triggers requires using the tools you've learned in treatment every single day. ...

How to Explain Addiction Recovery to Your Children

'It is important to be honest with your child about what is going on, but also important to filter information based on the child’s age—what you te...

Vaginal Cysts

For example, women may get an inclusion cyst after they have an episiotomy (a surgical cut used to enlarge the vaginal opening during childbirth) o...

Mysterious Ailment

Women with PCOS have excessively high levels of male hormones, such as testosterone. And, as evidenced by the irregular periods, women with PCOS do...

Medical Conditions Doctors Miss

Researchers asked the latter group if they had ever been told they had weak or failing kidneys, and only 20% of the men and 5% of the women said th...

Skin Conditions: Teenage Acne

Almost all teens get acne. The exact cause of acne is not known, but hormones called androgens can play a role. Some medications (for example, andr...

Prostate Cancer Risk Factors

Men whose relatives have had prostate cancer are considered to be at higher risk. Men with prostate cancer in their family should start getting scr...

Prostate Cancer: Glossary

The use of hormone medications to treat cancer patients by removing, blocking, or adding to the effects of a hormone on an organ or part of the bod...

Parkinson's Disease Resources

There are a wide variety of resources available to help you and your family meet the challenges of Parkinson's disease. The Parkinson's Resource Or...