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Clearing Up the Confusion: Drug Names and Their Salts
You’ve given the pharmacist a prescription for your new diabetes medication called metformin hydrochloride, but when you receive your bottle and look it up on the internet, all you see is “metformin”, not “metformin hydrochloride.” Why is this? Is...
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Diabetes Symptoms & Complications
Symptoms
People with type 1 or type 2 diabetes may have a range of symptoms. These symptoms might include:
Frequent urination (polyuria) -- often at night (nocturia)
Excessive thirst (polydipsia)
Extreme hunger (polyphagia)
Dry skin
Weakness/feeling tired much of the...
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Diabetes Risk Factors & Prevention
Risk Factors
Risk factors are characteristics that can predispose you to developing a condition or disease. Just because you have one or more risk factors does not mean you will get diabetes. Risk factors for type 1 diabetes are not...
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Childhood Obesity: Is a U.S. Epidemic Improving?
Overweight or obese children in America
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity affects 17 percent of all children and adolescents in the United States, which equates to 12.5 million children - triple the rate from...
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Pill Splitting – A Safe Way to Save Healthcare Dollars?
Why split tablets?
Use of medications for chronic illnesses, such as hypertension, diabetes, or high cholesterol - all common U.S. conditions - can often run into the thousands of dollars per year. Rising healthcare costs often force consumers to try...
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Top 15 on the Health Insurance
1. What is a Health Insurance Exchange?
You have probably heard by now that there is a big transformation coming to U.S. health insurance. Through changes brought about by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), health...
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Back to School Basics: 5 Common Health Questions From Parents
School Health Questions for Parents
For many kids in America, the next few weeks involve getting back to school after a long (or maybe not so long) summer break. While students may be dreading the return to the classroom, homework,...
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