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Personal Health: A Dental Shift: Implants Instead of Bridges

If I have one serious regret about my age, it is that my permanent teeth developed before New York, my hometown, got fluoridated water. I first lost a permanent molar to decay in my early 20s, and the resulting bridge has had to be replaced several ...

From JANE E. BRODY, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009

Personal Health: Steroids’ Miracle Comes With a Caveat

Steroids corticosteroids, that is, synthetic versions of the natural hormone produced by the adrenal glands are indeed miracle drugs, capable of restoring the health and saving the lives of countless people with a wide spectrum of serious ailments. ...

From JANE E. BRODY, International Herald Tribune,  9 Nov 2009

Personal Health: A Breathing Technique Offers Help for People With Asthma

I don’t often write about alternative remedies for serious medical conditions. Most have little more than anecdotal support, and few have been found effective in well-designed clinical trials. Such trials randomly assign patients to one of two or more ...

From JANE E. BRODY, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

Personal Health: In Treatment, You May Need an Advocate

Two days after surgery to replace both my knees, a social worker employed by the hospital told me that the insurance company would not pay for me to stay any longer. Seeing that I was barely able to get to the bathroom on my own, she told the company I ...

From JANE E. BRODY, The New York Times,  26 Oct 2009

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Hurried turnaround time can prolong an ankle injury

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From JANE E. BRODY THE NEW YORK TIMES, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party

Personal Health: The Many Ills of Peripheral Nerve Damage

If you have ever slept on an arm and awakened with a “dead” hand, or sat too long with your legs crossed and had your foot fall asleep, you have some inkling of what many people with peripheral neuropathy experience day in and day out, often with no ...

From JANE E. BRODY, The New York Times,  19 Oct 2009

Personal Health: Options for Dealing With Uterine Fibroids

A tumor does not have to be malignant to cause serious symptoms and lead to billions of dollars in health care spending every year. Consider uterine fibroids, which are benign tumors of the reproductive tract. A uterine fibroma is a benign tumor which ...

From JANE E. BRODY, The New York Times,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Georgetown University

Personal Health: Nursing Homes That Belie the Bad Image

I have often said in no uncertain terms that I never want to be placed in a nursing home unless it is to recover from a treatable illness or injury. I have heard so many horror stories of neglect, mistreatment, understaffing, poorly trained attendants ...

From JANE E. BRODY, The New York Times,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: American Medical Association,  Barack Obama,  AARP

Too much salt takes a blood-pressure toll

American diet and enhance opportunities for health-promoting exercise. Perhaps nothing in medicine more aptly depicts the paradoxical statement "doing better, feeling worse" than high blood pressure. Despite an extraordinarily easy way to detect it, ...

From JANE E. BRODY NEW YORK TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  30 Sep 2009

Personal Health: From Birth, Engage Your Child With Talk

I recently stopped to congratulate a young mother pushing her toddler in a stroller. The woman had been talking to her barely verbal daughter all the way up the block, pointing out things they had passed, asking questions like “What color are those ...

From JANE E. BRODY, The New York Times,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: American Medical Association

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