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Your Good Health: MRI reveals disease of the blood vessels in the brain

Your Good Health: MRI reveals disease of the blood vessels in the brain

High blood pressure, smoking and high blood cholesterol put people at risk for small vessel ischemic disease, which affects blood vessels in the brain.
Your Good Health: Why the government shouldn鈥檛 put limitations on sodium intake

Your Good Health: Why the government shouldn鈥檛 put limitations on sodium intake

Excess sodium has health risks, so public health officials recommend that people consume less of it, but government regulation might be a step too far
Your Good Health: Nuclear stress test after a heart attack causes worry in patient

Your Good Health: Nuclear stress test after a heart attack causes worry in patient

This type of stress test uses radioactive isotopes to look at blood flow to the heart and is monitored carefully so there is no damage to the heart.
Your Good Health: Zepbound offers health benefits, but must be taken long-term

Your Good Health: Zepbound offers health benefits, but must be taken long-term

This is a prescription medication originally used for diabetes but now approved for weight loss. Most people regained weight as soon as they stopped the medicine.
Your Good Health: Understanding incompatible kidney transplant

Your Good Health: Understanding incompatible kidney transplant

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is a common genetic disease
Your Good Health: Confirming the diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica

Your Good Health: Confirming the diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica

The main symptom of polymyalgia rheumatica is muscle pain that begins suddenly, especially in the shoulders and neck but also in both hips in some people.
Your Good Health: Esophagitis diagnosis calls for the cessation of NSAIDs

Your Good Health: Esophagitis diagnosis calls for the cessation of NSAIDs

A person with inflammation of the tissues that line the esophagus should avoid drugs that can cause more damage
Your Good Health: Smoking triples risk for patient with P. vera

Your Good Health: Smoking triples risk for patient with P. vera

Smoking causes several distinct problems for people with P. vera
Your Good Health: 63-year-old debates getting shingles, chicken pox vaccines

Your Good Health: 63-year-old debates getting shingles, chicken pox vaccines

For an older person who has never had chicken pox, getting both vaccines provides the best protection.
Your Good Health: Paregoric is available but seldom prescribed

Your Good Health: Paregoric is available but seldom prescribed

Although reasonably safe and effective when used exactly as directed, this derivative of opium can be inadvertently taken in excess, causing overdoses