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Chicken Pox: 3 Ways to Calm the Itch
Chicken pox only last a couple of weeks but the itch can be more than your child can handle. Soothe their pain with these full-proof home remedies.
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What are Shingles?
You know you can get shingles if you’ve had chicken pox and you know how to treat it, but do you know what it is and how it develops? Read on to find out.
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4 Ways to Prevent Shingles
If you’ve had chicken pox, you’re at risk for getting shingles. Here are a few ways you can try to decrease your chances of catching the itch.
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8 Natural Ways to Treat Shingles
If you have a case of the shingles, read on to find out what you can do to treat the pain.
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5 Ways to Handle Chicken Pox
Chicken pox lasts only a week or two, but generally the end can't come soon enough. If pain is the problem, ease it with acetaminophen — never aspirin. If the itching is too much of a bear to bear, try cool baths and an antihistamine such as liquid Benadryl. And have a few other tricks to keep up your sleeve to minimize the misery.
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Shingles: 6 Ways to Treat the Itching
After getting a prescription medication from your doctor, try some of these home remedies to soothe the itching and heal the blisters caused by shingles.
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10 Recommended Adult Vaccines
The Centre for Disease Control recommends ten vaccines for adults. Some we should all get; others are for people with certain conditions or risk factors. Ask your doctor which ones could help protect you.
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It’s Personal—Family, Cancer, and Treatment
Freda Cryer lay in her hospital bed, facing the most challenging moment of her life—surviving a bone marrow transplant to treat her acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Just hours after Freda’s transplant, her daughter, Alexandra Chen, was two blocks away buzzing off her long blonde locks of hair, surrounded by family and friends.
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Generic Drugs vs. Brand Name Drugs
Generic drugs are considered “just as good” as their more expensive brand-name counterparts—but, as one writer experienced, in certain circumstances their effects can be dangerously different.
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