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Melodic medicine: Research shows music helps ease pain from surgery or illness

Melodic medicine: Research shows music helps ease pain from surgery or illness

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. “There’s often a cycle of worry, pain, anxiety in a hospital,” he said, “but you can help break that cycle with music.”

 
Children’s health: How safe is that holiday gift for your kids?

Children’s health: How safe is that holiday gift for your kids?

For many families, gift giving is one of the joys of the holiday season. Unfortunately, not all toys are as safe as they appear. Even popular, well-reviewed toys can pose serious safety risks, including choking or ingestion hazards that may lead to life-threatening complications.

 
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Ask the doctors: Strong bones aren’t built by calcium alone

Ask the doctors: Strong bones aren’t built by calcium alone

Calcium does not act alone in bone remodeling during perimenopause. It is tied to vitamin D, zinc, magnesium, phosphate and vitamin K — more specifically, vitamin K2.

 
Patient advocate: New website is a medical library at your fingertips

Patient advocate: New website is a medical library at your fingertips

There’s a lot of medical misinformation out there, much of it promulgated by nonmedical individuals based on nothing more than assumptions and unwarranted conclusions. But what if you could find published, peer-reviewed answers to your medical questions, written in everyday language? Good news. You can!

 
Trump administration says lower prices for 15 Medicare drugs will save taxpayers billions

Trump administration says lower prices for 15 Medicare drugs will save taxpayers billions

Pharmaceutical companies have agreed to slash the Medicare prices for 15 prescription drugs after months of negotiations, reductions that are expected to produce billions in savings for taxpayers and older adults, the Trump administration said.

 
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