Adults need shots to prevent serious diseases. You should ask your doctor or other health care provider which shots are right for you. Influenza (flu) shots Everyone over age 65 needs this every year. You may need flu...
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Simple Ways to Protect Your Kids from Poisons
Post the number. Get the phone number for your poison control center, and post it in a place where family members can find it in an emergency. Tape it to the telephone, post it on the refrigerator, or tack it to the...
NIH Funds Botanical Center in Iowa to Study Health Effects of Echinacea and St. John’s Wort
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced a 5-year, $6 million grant for the...
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Find out what you can do every day to make your Immune System as strong as it can be! Boosting the Immune System Question: As a biology teacher at Hoffman Estates High School I asked my junior and senior students to...
Folic Acid
Q. What is folic acid? A. Folic acid is one of the B vitamins. Folic acid is found in oranges, grapefruits, lemons, dark green leafy vegetables, beans, peas, and lentils. You also can get folic acid by eating cereals...
Herbal Alternatives to Viagra
Q. Are there any herbal alternatives to Viagra? A. Not exactly. Viagra produces rather immediate results. Herbal approaches tend to be less effective in the short-term because they focus on getting at the root of the...
Hair Replacements – What Works and What Doesn’t
When the advertising slogan “Be Like Mike” caught America’s fancy, it wasn’t because every man decided to go for the Michael Jordan look by reaching for a razor and shaving his head. Sure, men...
The Thick and Thin of Hair Cosmetics
While Rogaine and other minoxidil-based products are giving consumers hopes of regrowing hair, another part of the hair-care industry has been jumping into the fray. Drugstore chains, beauty shops, and salons are...
Breast Cancer
Q. What is breast cancer? A. Breast cancer is a serious disease in which some cells in your breast become abnormal (unhealthy), multiply out of control, and can damage healthy parts of your body. Breast cancer can be in...
Going Nuts over Paclitaxel
Extracting the lifesaving anticancer drug paclitaxel–better known by its brand name, Taxol–could cause less of an impact on the environment now that significant amounts of the drug have been found in the...
