You blink an average of 15,000 times a day. Still, pollen can get in your eyes. For seasonal allergy sufferers, pollen can cause allergic conjunctivitis - that's when your eyes get red and swollen. Experts at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver offer these...
How does Tamiflu work? TAMIFLU attacks the influenza virus and stops it from spreading inside your body. Rather than simply masking the symptoms, Tamiflu treats flu at its source. Treatment of the flu virus and prescription of any antiviral medications like Tamiflu needs to happen within...
NEURONTIN, also called gabapentin, can be used to relieve nerve pain that follows shingles in adults. Commonly known as PHN (postherpetic neuralgia), the pain can last one to three months (in some cases, years) after shingles has healed. Studies of PHN show Neurontin greatly reduces patients'...
Avian Influenza - What is it? Avian influenza is an infection caused by bird flu viruses. Occurring naturally amongst birds (domesticated and wild), the virus is carried in their intestines. Avian influenza is very contagious among birds and can make domesticated birds like chickens, ducks,...
ACTOS works along with healthy eating and physical activity to help you manage your type 2 diabetes. Actos helps your body use its own natural insulin or the insulin you take. What Is Type 2 Diabetes? Type 2 diabetes occurs when your body makes too little insulin....
Tamoxifen has been used for more than 20 years to treat patients with advanced breast cancer. Tamoxifen is used as additional therapy after primary treatment for early-stage breast cancer. Tamoxifen greatly reduces the possibility of developing breast cancer in women who have a greater chance of...
Carvedilol (brand name-COREG) - help treat heart failure. Used in combination with other medications, Carvedilol can help treat heart failure. It can also be used alone or in combination with other medications to treat high blood pressure. What is heart failure? Heart failure is a disorder in which...
Celebrex is a prescription medication used to help relieve the pain and swelling of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Celebrex is also used to treat pain in adults (strains and sprains) or pain after surgery, primary dysmenorrhea (painful menstrual cramps) and symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis. Ankylosing...
The common stereotypes associated with mental illness are that your problems are caused by your intelligence or your personality. If you want to start feeling better, you can. This is not true. Overcoming mental illness is not like going on a diet. It takes more...
ACTOS is a prescription medication that can be combined with a healthy diet and physical activity to help control your type II diabetes. ACTOS helps your body use the natural produced insulin more efficiently. ACTOS should only be prescribed when healthy eating and exercise are...
More than 65 people suffer from high blood pressure; however, more than one third of the people who suffer from high blood pressure don't even know it. The symptoms of high blood pressure are hard to detect without being tested, and even if you have...
Nasal symptoms attack you year round, but using Fluticasone Propionate can help stop the suffering. Fluticasone Propionate is a prescription nasal spray approved to treat indoor and outdoor allergies and nonallergic symptoms and reduce the inflammation that leads to congestion, sneezing, and itchy, runny nose. Quite...