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Your Good Health: Weight-loss drugs only for severe obesity

Your Good Health: Weight-loss drugs only for severe obesity

The benefits of weight-loss drugs only outweigh the risks in people who have (or are at a very high risk for) a medical problem due to their weight.
Your Good Health: Pregnant woman may have myocardial bridging

Your Good Health: Pregnant woman may have myocardial bridging

In this congenital condition, the heart muscle wraps around a coronary artery and vigorous exercise can lead to constricted blood flow
Your Good Health: Drop in patient's kidney function score not a concern

Your Good Health: Drop in patient's kidney function score not a concern

It is normal for the eGFR or estimated glomerular filtration rate to decrease slowly after the age of 18
Your Good Health: Abnormal infarction on an EKG brings worry of a heart attack

Your Good Health: Abnormal infarction on an EKG brings worry of a heart attack

Test patterns anomolies in the septum near electrical wires that attach to the chest unlikely to be an attack 80% of the time
Your Good Health: Hashimoto鈥檚 thryoiditis and how to treat it

Your Good Health: Hashimoto鈥檚 thryoiditis and how to treat it

Hashimoto鈥檚 thyroiditis is not a rare disease, occurring in up to 10% of the population and in women much more frequently than men.
Your Good Health: Sudden foot pain after long walk becomes debilitating

Your Good Health: Sudden foot pain after long walk becomes debilitating

Testing can help determine if and what kind of nerve disease is causing the pain
Your Good Health: Shortness of breath may require a stent, amid heart medication

Your Good Health: Shortness of breath may require a stent, amid heart medication

Stents open blocked arteries and keep them open
Your Good Health: What's the difference between viral, bacterial infections?

Your Good Health: What's the difference between viral, bacterial infections?

There are vaccines for many bacterial and viral diseases. Vaccines 鈥渢each鈥 the body what to look out for so that an infection can be responded to more quickly.
Your Good Health: Occlusion of artery calls for medical therapy

Your Good Health: Occlusion of artery calls for medical therapy

Control of blood pressure, exercise and diet are among the strategies for people with blockages
Your Good Health: Urination increases amid prostate medication

Your Good Health: Urination increases amid prostate medication

Any person with diabetes who notes increased urination should be evaluated for high blood sugar.